I would buy this argument if the US had any effective consumer privacy laws in the first place and Byte Dance was flagrantly ignoring them.
The issue of course is that the US doesn’t want to cripple their own social media companies by passing laws that everyone has to follow in the first place.
It’s just a different use case to create a single-file large language model engine that automatically chooses the “best” parameters to run under. It uses llama.cpp under the hood.
The intent is to make it as easy as double clicking a binary to get up and running.