Here's the comment from Eric Wall, which highlights that Venice is probably not private: https://x.com/ercwl/status/1884071754005635456?s=46

https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1883675716589691366 Btw the 70B params model that Voorhees is quoting is only 42GB and can be run on my 2021 Macbook. Slow, but it works It‘s really easy to install too, you can just do ollama run deepseek-r1:72B So in that sense, it is already maximally decentralized and only centralizes when run in the cloud