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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…

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  1. 2026-10-02 08:44 · r/LocalLLaMA
    best <40B alternatives to Qwen/Deepseek for (1) Coding (2) Long document QA test

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