Western Deepseek – Same model but we don't send your data to China
Hi! I'm launching Western Deepseek, an alternative to Deepseek that ensures your data stays private and doesn't get sent to China. It's the same model, but self-hosted and privacy-focused. Try it out and let me know your thoughts!
Does the same job
all alternatives →- DDDistilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try itJul 2026 · ctgt.ai · ▲170
We recently used DeepSeek V4 Flash as a teacher for finance tasks with GPT-OSS-120B. Distillation works well on this problem. At a constrained 8k token budget, our self-distilled 120B scores 83.61% on FinanceReasoning, above Kimi K3 (81.93%) and Inkling (65.13%). We released the 20B open weights. With V4 as the teacher though, we realized it would be timely to measure if the censorship characteristic of it transferred to the distilled version of the base model. tl;dr it didn't, the teacher answered politically sensitive questions 7 SDs differently than expected, but the distilled model's…
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