I think you could look into Minstral. There's also GPT-OSS but I'm not sure how well it stacks up.
What's your problem with Chinese LLMs?
Nothing personally - Our customers send us highly sensitive financial documents to process. Using a foreign model to process their data (or even just for local testing) will most likely result in a u-turn.
it’s not obvious to you why someone would want to avoid models created by our enemies?
Nothing personally - Our customers send us highly sensitive financial documents to process. Using a foreign model to process their data (or even just for local testing) will most likely result in a u-turn.