Should Companies Fear Open Source Chinese Models?
Harrison Chase does not think fear of open source Chinese models is justified. Some enterprises are fearful of working with open source Chinese models. Others do not care.
The concerns are not the same. One is that the data a model runs on will somehow go back to the Chinese labs. Using Fireworks or hosting the model yourself makes that worry ridiculous. A different fear is that the stuff the models were trained on will cause them to respond in a way that is not consistent with the values of the enterprise. Evals are where that second fear gets checked.
The fear is largely unfounded, and he calls it probably largely unfounded overall. On the response issue he is less sure: for some domains there may be some realness, and because of that kind of response he could see some nuance.
