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Why Russia Picks DeepSeek Over ChatGPT & Claude

DeepSeek vs ChatGPT & Claude — Loran Jacobs on why Russian companies choose open-source AI for security, sovereignty, and scale.

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DeepSeek vs ChatGPT & Claude — Loran Jacobs on why Russian companies choose open-source AI for security, sovereignty, and scale. 


At a December 2025 expert panel, Loran Jacobs challenged the assumption that commercial LLMs dominate enterprise AI. He argued open-source models match or outperform ChatGPT and Claude in real deployments — where sovereignty, on-premise security, and regulatory compliance drive every decision. For Russian business, open source isn't ideology. It's survival.

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