Chinese AI Models: What Happens to the Data You Send Them

Servers, retention, training and the law behind DeepSeek, Qwen and Kimi. What really happens to a project document pasted into a Chinese model.
AI in engineering work: writing, document analysis and automation of repetitive tasks with clear checks.

Servers, retention, training and the law behind DeepSeek, Qwen and Kimi. What really happens to a project document pasted into a Chinese model.

Three routes from an inbox and a folder of PDFs to a table you can filter: a mail connector, an MCP server and a script, with the security rules for each.

Retrieval over your own notes: what the pipeline is made of, three ways to run it and the mistakes that make an answer sound confident without a source.

Hermes is not a model and not a chat. It is the layer that keeps the context, the tools and the next steps of a task, and calls the model when a decision is needed.