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Legal won’t allow Chinese models where I work—not just in production, but on employee machines or any company-owned device. I believe the rationale is they don’t want any legal problems if federal or state bans are enacted for “national security”, which certainly isn’t an unfounded fear. I have a feeling a lot of larger companies will be implementing similar policies, and I do also worry that any individual using Chinese models for personal use will be arrested and charged as a terrorist or something. Chinese open weight models like Qwen are fantastic, but it does feel a lot of eggs in one basket.
Funnily enough, there's pretty much the same mindset in our team, but towards USA models (and tech in general). There's a non-zero risk that either EU decides that USA products aren't trustworthy or that the orange man decides to cut off European companies from the services (which kinda already happened with Anthropic). And, as we're in Europe, there's very similar threat models for Chinese services.