Charles Rollet
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Charles Rollet
@charlesrollet.bsky.social
Tech reporter at Business Insider. Previously at TechCrunch. Bylines in WSJ, Wired, Vice, Foreign Policy.
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The co-founder of Fireworks AI also confirms R1 is censored locally.
February 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The Chinese government knows exactly how AI models work... it would never allow a model's censorship to by bypassed so easily.

See this excellent WSJ reporting.

www.wsj.com/tech/china-p...
February 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
A few months ago, HuggingFace CEO
Clement Delangue warned that Chinese AI models censor Tiananmen & could spread values "the Western world wouldn’t want":

techcrunch.com/2024/12/03/h...

Now he's promoting DeepSeek's integration with Dell, with HuggingFace's help:
January 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM