Comment by seri4l

3 hours ago

Deepseek is, with difference, the most "Western" of Chinese models, so it's a bit perplexing that it was chosen to test this hypothesis.

I didn't run any benchmarks but I played around a little, and after getting around the API-level filter Deepseek V4's answers about "China-sensitive content" aren't any different from what I get from Claude and ChatGPT.

Could just be resources available? Deepseek is the easiest to get up and running on hardware that's pretty readily available:

   unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-GGUF 4bit ~140GB
   unsloth/Kimi-K3-GGUF 4bit ~1.5TB
   unsloth/GLM-5.2-GGUF 4bit ~400GB