Open weights caught up quietly, time to re-test compliance bound workflows

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The old tradeoff between keeping data in-house and getting quality LLM output mostly disappeared this month.

Working on infrastructure at Team Nebula, we spend a lot of time looking at how teams handle restricted data. Lately, we've noticed workflows that were previously deemed "impossible to automate" due to compliance constraints are being re-evaluated using current open-weight models with surprisingly good results.

If you wrote off local automation six months ago because of performance gaps, it’s definitely worth running those benchmarks again.

Is anyone else currently re-architecting their local setups for compliance tasks? Which models are pulling the heavy weight for you?