DeepSeek's free availability and open source nature is an economic attack on the American tech industry.

“This really to me feels like an economic blow it feels like an attack against not just open AI but honestly the entire American Tech sector the fact that they made the chat bought free and they completely open sourced it so you can't even pull the the China card very well”

Running LLMs locally allows users to ignore censorship and data privacy concerns associated with models from China.

“People are worried about it's ties to China or whatever but you can fairly easily just like ignore those by running it locally and even entirely offline”