Absolutely many would, especially those with deep pockets. The biggest concern I'm hearing from companies adopting AI, for basically any use case, is data leaving their network. Especially (but not only) in the EU.

Deepseek is just the model weights. Nothing about it requires network access.

Deepseek is not really comparable to Gemini 2.5 Pro.

DeepSeek-R2 may be...

Folks who would prefer to run deepseek are not in the end customer for this product. Deepseek doesn't provide a service contract.