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swiftcoder • yesterday at 8:25 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> Am I missing something?

It's pretty clear from their framing ("Beam advances the Western open-weight frontier") that one of their main selling points is not being a Chinese lab.

I can't imagine that mattering to many individuals, but I guess someone out there has a government contract that forbids the use of foreign models


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htrp • yesterday at 8:27 PM

Reflection raised on the idea of creating the "American Deepseek Project"

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mirekrusin • yesterday at 8:30 PM

Multiple independent approaches are cool and all but fully open source model training (datasets, pipeline, checkpoints) should be taking advantage of being open and share runs/budget between different entities.