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lenerdenator 21 hours ago

There's a difference between "It's straightforward to do" and "I can convince a customer to sign a contract allowing us to do it."

If the second one were as easy as the first, I wouldn't have to be online at 9:00 to deploy stuff to prod tonight; the team in India would handle it. But customers write into the contracts that only US-based employees interact with prod systems. No amount of cajoling will get them to change their minds; they have data sovereignty, international telecommunications treaties, and HIPAA compliance to worry about. So I'll be pressing buttons tonight.

Could you swap out Anthropic or OpenAI or Google or whoever's models for Kimi? Yes. They're like other software these days, they're modular. What isn't modular is regulatory and geopolitical concern.