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MODELS2026-02-18•4 min read
Open-Weights Reasoning Models: The Decentralization Wave
Distillation breakthroughs mean anyone can run 70B parameter models matching proprietary intelligence on consumer workstation hardware.
BY Sarvesh Bhoyar•GURGAON · INDIA
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The democratization of reasoning models has accelerated. Open-weights research laboratories have successfully distilled reasoning trajectories into compact 8B and 14B models that run locally via Ollama and vLLM.
This shift guarantees privacy for healthcare, proprietary codebases, and financial institutions that cannot ship confidential data to third-party cloud APIs.
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