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Germany urges Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from app stores over EU privacy concerns
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this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2025
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Can we? Which country had open sourced it's models and weightings so that the LLM can be run locally and spyfree?
France, Mistral. There are also many others in US and worldwide.
China is worse when comparing many other factors, but if ALL you care about is whether the model weights are os, then it is usually not decided by countries, but rather companies.
We are comparing chatGPT and Deepseek.
Again, not an opinion everyone agrees on. And this very much depends on which factors are cherry picked.
If you want privacy then you need to run locally, and to run locally all you do care about is model weights.
Not sure why this dimension is worth adding to the discussion.
Then why are you asking binary questions about countries? Meta released open source models and weights way before DeepSeek, but I guess that wouldn't fit into your "China is better" narrative so we'll just pretend Llama never happened.
Because a highly opinionated binary statement was made about China. I'm not saying China is better than the US. I'm saying it's not worse.