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Exploring Gemma, Qwen, and Ministral

I have been meaning to experiment with local LLMs and I couldn't sleep last night so I spent my morning downloading Gemma (US), Ministral (France), and Qwen (China). I thought it was amusing and interesting Qwen refuses to answer questions about Taiwan. The knowledge cutoff for Gemma is only descri…

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  1. 2026-10-04 16:52 · r/LocalLLM
    Exploring Gemma, Qwen, and Ministral

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