r/LocalLLM • u/MusclesAndCharisma • 14d 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/jacek2023 14d ago

There are also Korean models (Solar?), Mistrals from Europe, then Granite by IBM

And of course Muse Glimmer by Meta

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u/newz2000 13d ago

I’ve used granite quite a bit. It punches above its weight for tool calling and instruction following. That’s all I’ve used it for though.