(Please don't downvote - serious question) Are Chinese models generally accepted for use within US companies? The company I work for won't allow Qwen.

There is a difference between Chinese model and Chinese service.

Your company most likely is banning the use of foreign services, but it wouldn't make sense to ban the model, since the model would be ran locally.

I wouldn't allow my employees to use a foreign service either if my company had specific geographic laws it had to follow (ie, fin or med or privacy laws, such as the ones in the EU).

That said, I'm not sure I'd allow them to use any AI product either, locally inferred on-prem or not: I need my employees to _not_ make mistakes, not automate mistake making.

In private sector yes. Anything that touches public sector (government) and it starts to be supply chain concerns and they want all american made models