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RE: I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1421 - Preparing to Run and Test Qwen3.6 35B A3B on 8GB of VRAM and 64GB RAM - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Great post as always!
I have a random thought; it's probably nothing.
Qwen can do more for less cost in many cases, but I worry about security and doing anything to give an authoritative state an edge in the AI competition. Any thoughts on my random thought?
Some research I did:
...this adoption raises security concerns: the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) found that DeepSeek’s open models are more susceptible to cyber risks than comparable U.S. models. Additionally, Chinese models may censor topics to comply with political pressures and domestic regulations, and using models hosted by Chinese entities could present data privacy risks.
Even if Chinese models are nearly as good as top U.S. models for much lower costs, enterprise customers developing AI-base applications may prefer U.S. models for political and security reasons.
U.S. researchers and companies increasingly rely on Chinese base models, creating long-term dependency on infrastructure with embedded censorship and potential security vulnerabilities.
I may be overly cautious but I don't want to be doing anything to increase China's dominance in anything, especially AI and robots. But that's just me! And I'm sure I own lots and lots of things Made In China so I'm not that concerned after all, maybe! :D
Happy middle of the week! Hang in there, the weekend is coming. :)
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Thank you very much, Kenny, I appreciate it! I hadn't heard about specifically about Chinese models being more susceptible to cyber risks, but I'll look into it a bit more closely. The good thing about open-weight models, which is equivalent to software's open source, is that there's nothing hidden, and they can be modified, such as with various uncensored iterations. Also, China is already way ahead in AI development. Chinese people make up a huge portion of the AI-development community, so it's not even just at the governmental level. One reason that Chinese models are used so extensively is because they are generally better and more capable. Google's Gemma 4 line is very good, and I use that too, but for the most part American-made models can't compare to Chinese models in capabilities and performance, at least not yet. Regarding the exposure of sensitive data, that would be an issue with any cloud-based model that has access to a device, such as through an agent, because anything it sees and processes goes through, and is recorded on the hosting servers. Aside from not being willing to pay to use AI, that is my main reason for wanting to run everything locally, under my own control. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
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That AI model is used by #BraveBrowser and its "sister" project #BraveSearch. 🤔🧘♂️ The company explained that such model is efficient. 🤓😅
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Brilliant answer, thanks!
I knew you would have something important to say on this, as you think carefully about everything that you do. Thanks again for the interaction, I appreciate you, my friend!
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