Please do. There is definitely a market for Deepseek / GLM hosted from non-China servers, there's over 20 providers for GLM 5.2 on OpenRouter alone... and they're all either Singapore (home of Z.AI / GLM), China, or US. There is nothing yet listed on OpenRouter from Europe (Inceptron still only has GLM 5.1). And of course, there is absolutely nothing hosted in Australia.
We're in a particularly dire situation in Australia. We're about to be cut off from Claude Fable and premium American models. The European Mistral models are garbage, at least in comparison to US models. Our only hope is going to be Chinese models (GLM 5.2 is good), and we're not even hosting them in Australia.
By the way, if you haven't tried an Anthropic model, it's worth spending at least $20 one month to give Opus 4.8 a try. I only got one night of access to Fable before I was cut off, but one single evening of Fable provided plans that I've been working through for about a week afterwards with Opus 4.8... and that was only Fable, not even Mythos. That's the kind of intelligence lead Australia is about to be cut off from.
(And kudos on the Containers For Change, that's something I do as well - mostly as an exercise incentive to walk to the local recycling machine, because the money certainly doesn't compensate for the time spent on the recycling.)
So two European providers at least
(Speaking as a not-so-proud Australian.)
Jeremy Howard was recommending fireworks.ai as a host of you want to go direct. Or there's Cloudflare.
For subscription alternatives people here on HN seem to mention Open Code Go a lot too https://opencode.ai/go
As opposed to Anthropic or OpenAI where everything done could potentially be taken and used by the US government.
Also, replace "could potentially" with "will definitely" in both cases, there's no conspiracy here.
We're stuck between two bad positions, so just use the one that's best for you, and wait for a better solution to arrive.
Why don't you exclusively host and use the open-weight western models, even if right now they don't perform as well?
I'd like to know the psychology behind this, because your actions feel contradictory to me.