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points by flatline 3 days ago | 0 comments

Right? These are not likely to be meaningful points of comparison to anyone but the authors.

I disagree, my company is restricted from doing on-prem non-US model deployment. I appreciated not having to look up where each model was from since I don’t pay attention to the releases of all the models I can’t use and don’t know their names very well.

[–] wmf 3 days ago

Maybe Palantir will use it or something. There probably is a market for US models but I don't know how large it will be.

[–] Onawa 3 days ago

US Gov won't let Chinese models be hosted on any internal infra, not even supposed to use them for local AI. So there is absolutely a market for US-made or non-Chinese models there.

[–] DaSHacka 3 days ago

Do you have a source for this? Genuinely curious, I've seen reports online of MIC contractors already using it extensively on-prem. In fact, one of the issues they bring up is how there is no official guidance right now, so no one really knows what to do.

[–] ghc 2 days ago

General guidance we’ve received for deployment on protected gov’t networks the past few years has been any open source, whether software libraries or models, won’t pass security review if there are substantial contributions from Chinese/Russian/etc. nationals. There’s even an exceptions list for “well known software” where there are vetted versions for deployment (nginx).

[–] Onawa 3 days ago

I don't have a source unfortunately, this is mostly internal directives from my work within NIH. I've had many conversations with security officers and IT about my plans to use local models for various projects, and hackles were always raised in regards to Chinese models.

I also did a short stint with an IT operations company, and we were told Chinese models were a no-go as well from our deployments on DoD hardware.