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Comment by OezMaster

3 hours ago

How does it help EU companies?

So they can use GLM from a trusted provider, that is highly committed to respect local laws and regulations.

Just think about a defense contractor. Choosing trustworthy vendors is crucial to them. They can't just use a random provider from Open Router. They need to vet and certify their vendors. If they already have Mistral on the list of approved vendors, they can now just switch to the most recent open weight LLM if Mistral starts serving it.

They can use the model and the data and requests all stay in the EU region. As opposed to sending to Anthropic, Microsoft or Google. Granted, those companies can assert that data will stay in the EU region too, but they'd have to be believed, which, some may find tricky lately.

  • Thanks to the CLOUD act, its pretty irrelevant where the data is as long as its owned by a US entity.

    The government can just force release, even if it's on European servers.