Reddit asks: what actually works for deep research — local LLMs kept failing
Ambitious_Answer6857 · reddit · 2026-10-25
A Redditor shares his experience running deep research locally with Qwen3-8B and SearXNG: runs took 30 minutes, search engines blocked him, and the model confidently denied a real CVE existed. He asks the community what actually works — local models vs Gemini/Claude/ChatGPT/Perplexity, which search layer (SearXNG, Brave, Tavily), and how to verify sources and stop the model from making confident claims when searches return nothing.
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