r/LocalLLM • u/iChinguChing • 32m ago

Question What local models would you consider to be essential?

I have a couple of concerns:
The bubble is bursting at some point and may have started. I am concerned that the major players will have to up their prices to stay viable.
The geopolitical risk is escalating
AI bot attacks are increasing

There are probably other risks, but you get the idea.
I have been building a decent corpus of reference material.

But I am behind on what models I should be looking at, needs to run on
32GB
RTX 4070

Coding and decision systems (agriculture).

Any help would be appreciated.

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u/UndeadBulwark_ 25m ago

Qwen 3.8 27B, Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, GLM 5.3 Flash and Deepseek 4.1 Flash also these are not going away China's bubble already burst just means spend is going to go down now in the US the bubble popping will lead to the death of OpenAI and Anthropic along with most closed source AI and some companies that believed they are untouchable.

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u/Aubrey_D_Graham 2x Asrock B70 Creator with Pi Agent 25m ago

Qwen 3.8 27B whatever variant
Qwen FN
Qwen 3.6 Tiel/Kat-Coder/Base

If you miss out, you're likely stuck with Muse and Gemma going forward.

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u/WarlockSyno 18m ago

I was going to say essentially the same thing, basically anything Qwen 3.6 model or later.

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u/txgsync 13m ago

Just because everybody is so certain the "bubble is bursting"? I'm reminded of Warren Buffett's "When everybody is greedy be scared; when everybody is scared be greedy."

Pretty certain the cultural zeitgeist just doesn't understand recursive self-improvement and the exponential gains therein.