Anything you use hosted is a privacy problem, except the ones on secure enclaves, given that you check the attestations AND it is executed on platforms with efuses that aren't extracted yet (for example I saw an allegation last week that all AMD secure enclave master keys until Zen 5 are leaked because they reused the key, but Intel is allegedly doing better because they have fresh keys per model)

Thus it's always better to host your own. I currently use InternLM 3.5 14b (also Chinese made) as a local chatbot, which runs rather fast even on older hardware - and on my old M1 macbook I have tested 8b and that's performing well too. But it goes fast... I'll try out this model

optimism

Meituan's LongCat-Flash reasoning model has been released

lunin

Interesting...

TBH I haven't used LLM's very much so far. Some of the questioning I've asked hasn't really lived up to the hype so far. That could also be my inexperience with prompting.

So I don't really have a preference as to whether they are Chinese or American models. I DO have a concern about privacy and will at some point after testing different models I'd like to eventually find one that I think works well and run it locally.