@quxiaoyin: I went a dinner a few weeks ago with a bunch of enterprise execs who told me "we will never use Chinese models." "Even …
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An opinion piece arguing that enterprise executives who refuse to use Chinese AI models due to safety concerns are misguided, given that open-source models can be self-hosted and cost savings are substantial.
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I went a dinner a few weeks ago with a bunch of enterprise execs who told me “we will never use Chinese models.” “Even if it’s 100x cheaper?” “No, we care about safety and security.”
- They don’t understand when they host open-source models with their own GPUs or US data centers, they won’t share their data to China.
- They are giving away all their data to OpenAI and Anthropic rather than owning it privately themselves.
- They don’t understand math. 100x is a big number and lots of profits.
It’s almost July 2026 now. If your execs still talk like that, fire them now.
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