alt Hacker NewsWell, there is the small issue of privacy policy: Kimi will train their models on your interactions if you use their subscriptions, and only with direct API usage (billed at API prices) they say they won't. Whether you trust that is another matter.
Those things do make a difference to some of us, even though nothing is black and white. In my case, I'll probably want to wait until other providers appear through OpenRouter and then I'll try to judge how much I trust them. But even if I don't trust them much, they don't train models anyway, so the likelihood of my data being used that way is smaller.
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Indeed, the B2B / no-data-retention market is still going to provide plenty of business for American companies even if every hobbyist uses open-weight models.
Exactly; this is a no-go for me, I will wait for an independent provider to sell the service, which is possible thanks to the open weights.
> Kimi will train their models on your interactions
I find these kinds of concerns increasingly silly: most of the input to these models will be ... previous output from the very same models, alongside the occasional half-assed human command to fix something and "make zero mistakes". Who cares if they train on that? Let them, if it makes their future models better!
99% of users are not working on any special IP to worry about that.