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Buterin's DeepSeek V4 Privacy Pitch Lands With South Asian Builders Who Heard It First in Mumbai The Ethereum co-founder has spent the past two months stitching a new privacy stack together in public, and this week he pointed at DeepSeek V4 as the piece that finally makes the math work on consumer hardware.
For developer communities from Colombo to Karachi, the announcement is also a callback to where the idea was first staged.
Vitalik Buterin introduced his CROPS AI framework, short for Censorship-Resistant, Open-Source, Private and Secure AI, at the ETH Mumbai conference on 12 March.
Indian Ocean and South Asian audiences have been disproportionately exposed to the failure mode he is trying to solve, namely local AI tools that present themselves as private but quietly route prompts to OpenAI or Anthropic endpoints whenever the on-device model hits its limits.
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