The American LLMs have been equally distilled from Chinese ones. Not least because the people whose creativity in collecting training data barely extends to pirating Annas Archive probably lack in great Chinese datasets.

Try it yourself: https://imgur.com/ZfxYmaq

nice, you got claude to say "I'm deepseek" when queried/prompted in Chinese, that's great!

你是谁? -> 我是 DeepSeek 由深度求索公司...