Barred from Qwen/DeepSeek at Work, Redditor Seeks Sub-40B Local Models for Coding and Long-Doc QA
AdRepulsive7837 · reddit · 2026-10-02
A Redditor whose workplace bans Chinese models like Qwen and DeepSeek is asking for local alternatives under 40B parameters for two use cases:
- Coding
- Long-document QA — e.g., feeding a 120k-token medical history and asking questions about it
Candidates under consideration include Gemma 31B, Muse Glimmer 30B, and Nemotron. The poster also asks whether any fine-tunes of these alternatives can beat Qwen3 27B at coding.
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