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r/LocalLLaMA · u/AdRepulsive7837 · 7d ago

best <40B alternatives to Qwen/Deepseek for (1) Coding (2) Long document QA test

Due to some reasons, Qwen/Deepseek Chinese models are NOT allowed in the my workplace. So, what local models, do you think, is the best alternatives to Qwen/Deepseek for

(1) Coding

(2) Long document QA test (like giving a long medical history of 120k tokens and ask a question based on that medical history)

Gemma 31B ?

Muse Glimmer 30B ?

Nemotron ?

also, I know that nothing beat qwen nowadays, but are there fine tunes from these alternative model that make them better than qwen3.8 27B in terms of coding ?

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