DeepSeek (Chinese model) thinks about Tiananmen Square for a while, then shuts itself off : r/OpenAI

After the latest developments, Chinese LLMs have shown that they are competitive and have potential, but if they want to keep up this momentum (especially now that an AI arms race is likely to start in the US), they will inevitably need to develop and make ideologically neutral versions available to users outside the mainland. If they don’t do this, I fear that Chinese competitiveness will decline due to a slowdown in technological advancement in the future due to these restrictions. Due to anti-China sentiment, they may face exclusion from partnerships, legal restrictions, limitations on the model’s capabilities (since the smarter it gets, the more censorship will need to be done, which will limit its intelligence), as well as issues such as user distrust that could further reduce global revenue. And this is not just with LLMs, but with many other things. If they want to continue on the path they are on and remain competitive, they will need to change, even if it is just by investing more in localized versions for users outside of China.