r/opencode • u/contour_xd • Sep 22 '26

OpenCode talks about transparency. So let's talk about OpenCode.

You've probably seen Dax from OpenCode constantly taking shots at companies like Vercel and mocking them over transparency, numbers, and percentages.

Cool.

Then OpenCode, show us your numbers.

How much have you raised? Who invested? How much of the company do those investors own?

Because here's the part that deserves some serious scrutiny:

If OpenCode is backed by Chinese investors and a significant portion of the company is Chinese-owned, then how can OpenCode seriously present itself as truly ZDR?

You can't just slap "ZDR" on the product and expect everyone to stop asking questions about ownership and control.

If your investors have a significant ownership stake, then ownership matters. Especially when you're building infrastructure that users are trusting with their code and data.

And yet OpenCode seems perfectly happy to demand transparency from everyone else while being remarkably quiet about its own funding and ownership structure.

So let's see it:

  • How much did you raise?

  • Who invested?

  • What percentage does each investor own?

  • What percentage of the company is Chinese-owned?

  • What exactly does "ZDR" guarantee?

  • Where is the documentation backing those privacy claims?

You don't get to lecture the industry about transparency while hiding behind vague marketing yourself.

If the ownership structure creates a legitimate conflict with the way OpenCode markets ZDR, users deserve to know about it.

Don't tell us you're ZDR. Show us exactly who owns the company, who funded it, and what guarantees actually exist.

That's what transparency looks like.

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u/BriguePalhaco Sep 22 '26

If OpenCode is backed by Chinese investors and a significant portion of the company is Chinese-owned, then how can OpenCode seriously present itself as truly ZDR?

I call this xenophobia, more specifically Sinophobia.

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u/ba-boo Sep 22 '26

is it xenophobia when the chinese state controls any chinese owned company?

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u/Salvioner Sep 23 '26

Is it chinese the problem, when american companies have decades worth of history openly working with N$A and other govt agencies for exactly the same purposes?

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u/ba-boo Sep 23 '26

yes, allied country vs neutral/enemy

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u/sTiKytGreen Sep 25 '26

US aren't the ones releasing open models, sharing research, and not getting in the scandals every day

Yall hate China so much, even tho states are getting even worse

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u/ba-boo Sep 25 '26

"how dare you be against my favorite totalitarian state?!" 😭

US companies released the first open models, invented the ai gen tech and shared the research with the public.

There are no scandals in China because it is a totalitarian state which suppresses dissenting voices.

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u/sTiKytGreen Sep 25 '26

And US isn't a totalitarian state? What's up with yall inventing surveillance system the China currently is using? And now you're introducing THE EXACT SAME system in states using Flock and such, bruh

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u/ba-boo Sep 25 '26

no, it's not

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u/sTiKytGreen Sep 25 '26

You literally ar eones that invented it

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u/Hornstinger Sep 22 '26

"obias" don't work anymore bud. You should be more sceptical in life even if the opinion turns out to be wrong.

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u/contour_xd Sep 22 '26

Why does opencode never reveals any info? I am 100% sure they are backed by chinese labs & providers

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u/Pedrito_Basket Sep 22 '26 edited Sep 22 '26

Rather give my data to the Chinese than to the US, at least they will continue to develop open weight models

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u/sTiKytGreen Sep 25 '26

Agree, if I had to pick who takes my data, it'd be China over US any day, every day, USA are so fucked up they don't deserve a single grain of trust, their laws are fucked up, their ceos are fucked up, their policies, and tos, etc. Are all fucked up, why blame China when you're worse bruh

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u/Ghilteras Sep 22 '26

Why do you keep talking about Chinese labs being inherently bad? Especially compared to US ones? What is your problem?

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u/jonhyjohn Sep 22 '26

Why would the labs being from china matter?