Chinese AI models (Qwen, Kimi, MiniMax) are going closed-source. Does that kill their appeal for you?

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Honest question for people who actually use these models: The main reason I and many others trusted Chinese AI models was open source - you could run them locally, inspect the weights, avoid sending data to Chinese servers. That felt like a reasonable workaround for anyone with privacy or geopolitical concerns.