@PrajwalTomar_: If your entire AI stack runs on one US model, it can all go offline overnight. DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi. They're not just c…
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Discussing the risks of relying on a single US frontier AI model and advocating for a diversified stack using Chinese alternatives like DeepSeek and Qwen, which can be run locally and are cheaper, for better resilience and data privacy.
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If your entire AI stack runs on one US model, it can all go offline overnight.
DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi. They’re not just cheaper, on some tasks they’re equal or better. For a small operation like mine, 8-12x cheaper on the same output is a real number.
The part I think about more: Fable 5 got government-pulled overnight. GPT 5.6 is gated. If your entire stack runs on one frontier model, that’s a single point of failure you probably haven’t planned for.
Chinese models won’t get US-banned the same way. They can be run locally. Your data stays yours.
I still use Claude and GPT where they win. But I now route different tasks to different models based on what’s actually needed.
The routing logic I use: → Complex reasoning, client-facing output: frontier US model → Bulk research, data processing, structured output: DeepSeek or Qwen → Private tasks where data can’t leave: run it locally
This is where “AI is expensive” becomes “AI runs my team for less than one salary.”
The smart move isn’t loyalty to one lab. It’s building a stack that doesn’t break when a government sends a letter.
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