I did some research and testing with gpt-oss-20b and llama-4-maverick. They don't compare with Claude but could definitely handle some tasks like extracting structured information from articles, DevOps, routine coding tasks, smart OCR etc.

The Chinese open models suffer from censorship on certain topics, but there is a model where somebody trained Qwen on Deepseek outputs and it appears to be "abilterated" and will respond to those topics, and is pretty good overall. I'm going to run some of these models locally and will do a video/write-up about that.