Maybe Palantir will use it or something. There probably is a market for US models but I don't know how large it will be.
US Gov won't let Chinese models be hosted on any internal infra, not even supposed to use them for local AI. So there is absolutely a market for US-made or non-Chinese models there.
Do you have a source for this? Genuinely curious, I've seen reports online of MIC contractors already using it extensively on-prem. In fact, one of the issues they bring up is how there is no official guidance right now, so no one really knows what to do.
I don't have a source unfortunately, this is mostly internal directives from my work within NIH. I've had many conversations with security officers and IT about my plans to use local models for various projects, and hackles were always raised in regards to Chinese models.
I also did a short stint with an IT operations company, and we were told Chinese models were a no-go as well from our deployments on DoD hardware.
General guidance we’ve received for deployment on protected gov’t networks the past few years has been any open source, whether software libraries or models, won’t pass security review if there are substantial contributions from Chinese/Russian/etc. nationals. There’s even an exceptions list for “well known software” where there are vetted versions for deployment (nginx).
I disagree, my company is restricted from doing on-prem non-US model deployment. I appreciated not having to look up where each model was from since I don’t pay attention to the releases of all the models I can’t use and don’t know their names very well.