peace of mind versus using some Chinese cloud

These are open weight models (GLM-5.3 soon too). You can run them on the Together AIs or Firework AIs of this world. Use OpenRouter or HF Inference Providers in between and you can effortlessly switch between models and providers.

I have been using GLM and Kimi models the last few months mixed with the latest Anthropic models and for my daily work there is barely a difference anymore (except for pricing).