Deepseek is the company, R1 is an MIT-licensed produce, they have the Qwen models under Apache license.
You can download, modify, run locally. There are many copies online out of Deepseek’s control.
I always hear people say this as a ‘gotcha’ but it doesn’t make any sense.
I have travelled while homeless.
People will be renting an apartment in a developed city, owning a car, going out to pubs/nightclubs, and then telling dirty backpackers, “God must be nice to have the money to travel!”
travel vs sedentism, neither one is necessarily more cheap/expensive than the other
Don’t sneer at hungry people you absolute Westoid.
It’s not even true: North Korea is far wealthier than Haïti (where hotdogs are eaten all the time)
It’s nothing to do with individual choice and everything to do with design.