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

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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