Bindu Reddy: China's Ban on Wrapper Models Forces DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi to Excel

bindureddy · x · 2026-10-09

Abacus.AI CEO Bindu Reddy argued for keeping faith in DeepSeek and open-source AI: Chinese companies are the only ones banned from wrapping Anthropic or OpenAI models into random features, so they must deliver genuinely performant and efficient models.

Her take: they've been doing really well so far, and DeepSeek, GLM, and Kimi will only get better — a nod to Anthropic's tightened API terms against wrappers.

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