They actually can’t. Being open-source, it’s already proliferated. Apparently there are already over 500 derivatives of it on HuggingFace.
The only thing that could be done is that each country in the West outlaws having a copy of it, like with other illegal materials.
Even by that point, it will already be deep within business ecosystems across the globe.
Nup. OpenAI can be shut down, but it is almost impossible for R1 to go away at this point.
It’s ridiculous to think that there would still be an alliance of “Western Countries”. The Greenland thing, the threats related to NATO, tariff threats, techbros weaponising the US government to escape regulation in Europe etc etc. China is the FAR more reliable partner for Europe and South America. Good luck blocking the Chinese software in the US, but I think you will find no friends with your new leader in place.
Check out ollama.com You can download a whole bunch of models for free. The way I rum ollama is on linux from the cli, but if you can’t do it that way try jan.ai
and it’s open-source!
how long do you think it’ll take before the west decides to block all access to the model?
They actually can’t. Being open-source, it’s already proliferated. Apparently there are already over 500 derivatives of it on HuggingFace. The only thing that could be done is that each country in the West outlaws having a copy of it, like with other illegal materials. Even by that point, it will already be deep within business ecosystems across the globe.
Nup. OpenAI can be shut down, but it is almost impossible for R1 to go away at this point.
It’s ridiculous to think that there would still be an alliance of “Western Countries”. The Greenland thing, the threats related to NATO, tariff threats, techbros weaponising the US government to escape regulation in Europe etc etc. China is the FAR more reliable partner for Europe and South America. Good luck blocking the Chinese software in the US, but I think you will find no friends with your new leader in place.
Is there a way for me to download and run it locally, or does that require a super computer?
Check out ollama.com You can download a whole bunch of models for free. The way I rum ollama is on linux from the cli, but if you can’t do it that way try jan.ai
If you have a GPU with ray tracing hardware and at least 12gVRAM you should be able to run it albeit slowly at home