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Local Deep Research vs STORM
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Local Deep Research
~95% on SimpleQA (e.g. Qwen3.6-27B on a 3090). Supports all local and cloud LLMs (llama.cpp, Ollama, Google, ...). 10+ search engines - arXiv, PubMed, your private documents.
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STORM
An LLM-powered knowledge curation system that researches a topic and generates a full-length report with citations.
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| Measure | Local Deep Research | STORM |
|---|---|---|
| Days since the last commit | 0 | Not checked yet |
| GitHub forks | 886 | Not checked yet |
| GitHub stars | 9,417 | Not checked yet |
| Open issues | 1,042 | Not checked yet |
| Releases in the last 90 days | 8 | Not checked yet |
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