Comment by kvisner

1 day ago

I wish they had some kind of US hosted option, NDR policy, or something like that. I love the price and power, but I have concerns around data sovereignty and leaking IP to an overseas company.

As soon as the K3 weights are published on July 27th, there will be many US providers hosting the model. I realize model hosting doesn't really apply to kimi work specifically, but in terms of accessing K3, there will be US options likely in 7 days. Just look at OpenRouter to see the providers hosting K2.6 https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6.

  • Looking at these pages reminds me of browsing jellybean components on DigiKey. Amazing for the consumer, but one does wonder: What are all these DotAI infra companies’ plans to justify any of their valuations if they’re just selling commodity compute on OpenRouter?

I never really understood this sentiment. Some foreign company / government cannot do anything to me. My own government, on the other hand...

  • A foreign company can’t steal your IP to build out competing products?

    Or use source code to find novel vulnerabilities and deeply compromise your company?

  • Often it's the law. I don't trust the EU more than I trust the US or China, but I also cannot transfer data outside of the EU

Same. No way I am uploading data to a PRC company. It's not just an IP issue ... there's a very high likelihood such companies will be restricted in the United States, even if they try "Chinawashing" stunts like Bytedance.