How would they even attempt to implement this? Will the US end up with a Great Firewall like China has? Even if Chinese models are delisted from Hugging Face (since Hugging Face is a US company and has to follow US law), they could just be hosted elsewhere.

They’re different things. The comment you’re replying to is talking about different search engines. SearxNG is a metasearch engine - it combines results from multiple different search engines together.

Both are important. If you use SearXNG but only enable Google, it’s essentially just a proxy for Google and you miss out on most of the value of it. Some of the other search engines may have better results for some searches than Google does.

Most of the systems where this worked did it for any unrecognized words.

I suspect that most usage of the model is going to be companies and individuals running their own instance of it. They have some smaller distilled models based on Llama and Qwen that can run on consumer-grade hardware.

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One of the main features of Deepseek is that you can run it yourself. It doesn’t matter if Deepseek are based in China if you run the model on your own servers and thus guarantee that your data doesn’t leave your own data center.