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The US is ordering every civilian agency to rip out DeepSeek, even tools built on it (madrobot.blog)
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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Wdym they have a online offering

[–] 42yeah@eviltoast.org 3 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I would assume the gov agencies self host their instances due to sensitive data. But even if they don’t, why not switch to self host?

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Because idk, you need a good model and you dont have capex to buy a shitload of gpus

But yeah, ppl probably run small local models and they hate that too i can imagine. They want all the traffic to go to openai

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 19 hours ago

Self hosting costs money in the form of computing hardware

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 19 hours ago

nah they are using anthropoic, openai, MS, and google even.