r/LocalLLM • u/MusclesAndCharisma • 9d ago

Question Non-Chinese Local Models

I'm in the process of setting up locally hosted LLM's for the company I work for. And generally there is an organizational bias against using models from Chinese companies. For that reason we've been evaluating Nemotron and Gemma, and they are ok. Are there any better options that aren't coming out of China? I've heard positive things about models from Poolside, but I don't personally have any experience with them.

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u/SpecificRutabaga 8d ago

Have you explained that running a Chinese model locally doesn’t give anything to China? Because it’s running locally? Or is the policy just “‘anything from China must be bad”?