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