> There is literally nothing that the government can do to stop anyone from hosting the model.
I admire your optimism but the simple fact is, you have a person in power that can be easily bribed and you have VERY rich people that stand to lose a lot.
DeepSeek v3 is something I would actually install a VPN for, to get access to it, if it becomes an issue in Canada. It truly is on par with Sonnet and cost 15 times less.
My hope is, people will start to use DeepSeek v3 to do what DeepSeek is accused of having done and by the time things make it to court, it would be too late as there would be no way to say where any of the data came from.
That's not how any of this works. The fear mongering has no basis. Deepseek the company is not related to the weights of the model. The model cannot be outlawed. At worst, you can block Deepseek the company from the app store, cloud providers etc. That has nothing to do with the model.
> Deepseek the company is not related to the weights of the model.
I know the model is there, but running the 671B model would literally not make sense unless you can provide services at scale. The only reason that I, and others care is DeepSeek costs 15 times less than Sonnet. Stopping DeepSeek from offering their service at that price is the whole point of why OpenAI and Microsoft is now serious about all of this.
I believe the goal is to prevent any other provider from providing the models as an API service. OpenAI and Anthropic charge as much as they do because they bake in high salaries and R&D. With the weights freely available, the only cost is just hardware and support staff.
I admire your optimism but the simple fact is, you have a person in power that can be easily bribed and you have VERY rich people that stand to lose a lot.
DeepSeek v3 is something I would actually install a VPN for, to get access to it, if it becomes an issue in Canada. It truly is on par with Sonnet and cost 15 times less.
My hope is, people will start to use DeepSeek v3 to do what DeepSeek is accused of having done and by the time things make it to court, it would be too late as there would be no way to say where any of the data came from.