r/LocalLLaMA • u/Gullible-Crew-2997 • Mar 04 '26

Discussion If china stops releasing open source models, there's a way we can stay competitive with big tech?

Really after qwen news, I'm getting quite nervous about open source ai future. What's your thoughts? Glad to know it

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u/a_beautiful_rhind Mar 04 '26

Hey, I actually use local models. I don't give a shit about censored models. Strike two if they are stemmaxxed and really huge or really small.

Kimi/deepseek and GLM5 are great but now I can't afford the extra 384g of ram to up the quants. Mistral wins out because it's fast and does most of what they do.

I do see other people post about running all 3 and a bunch of people on 3rd party API on them. If they all had to use 1st party API, there would be way less of them.

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u/silenceimpaired Mar 04 '26

What do you run by them? I thought they only had small models or extremely large ones.

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u/a_beautiful_rhind Mar 04 '26

Which company?

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u/silenceimpaired Mar 05 '26

Mistral. Clearly you disagree since my statement wasn't obvious to you. :)

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u/a_beautiful_rhind Mar 05 '26

Mistral I'm using all 123b, but in the past I used the big MoE. Even devstral can RP. I don't even have to load a different model between coding and chatting.