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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by HDBaseT on Monday August 03, 2026 @01:57AM (#49151713)
You can send armed men to your house, or restrict companies in America from using these models.

They can also restrict US providers from serving these models. Looking at OpenRouter, there is currently 11 providers for 'DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731' with the only non-US one being Deepseek themselves, which aren't even the cheapest.

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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by Barbing on Monday August 03, 2026 @03:24AM (#49152326)
> the only non-US one being Deepseek themselves, which aren't even the cheapest.

Interesting.

If I were a western lab, might I be tempted to subsidize at least one faster & cheaper provider for Chinese models to keep even more data from leaving the US?

(I know in this case there can just be more efficient providers, am asking more than speculating)

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