> 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 a day ago | parent | next [-]

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

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mirekrusin a day ago | parent [-]

Who's funding this?

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atlasunshrugged a day ago | parent | next [-]

Looks like Nvidia, Eric Schmidt, Sequoia, and a host of others https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/reflection-raises-2b-to-be...

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ipsum2 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I still don't get why, after over a decade on HN, people refuse to Google very simple questions.

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jauntywundrkind a day ago | parent | next [-]

Reciprocally, people probably do go find out. The great filter is also how many of them come back to post the useful interesting information.

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hadlock a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I still don't get why, after 25 years of slashdot, still ask why people DRTFA and complain about it as meta commentary.

InB4: kids these days :shakes-fist-at-cloud:

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nickpsecurity 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sometimes we just enjiy having a conversation with people. It's how we got many answers before Google exists. I believe such choices have many, positive effects on people that society is losing.

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dominotw a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

quesiton is more like "lets analyze the motivations behind funding this"

	▲	kelnos a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And a much better post would be "Just checked, and X, Y, and Z are funding this. My bet is that Y is funding it because $REASON..." Asking an easily-searchable question is just lazy.
	▲	calmworm 20 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Profit. Always.

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NamlchakKhandro a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

because my templeos goes straight from ring0 after bios straight into a ui for hackernews that only lets me scroll, click into comments and type comments.

	▲	JSR_FDED a day ago \| parent [-]
		Try using the same Internet that you used to download templeos to search for stuff.

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nozzlegear a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't get why anyone posts anything on HN when they can just have an LLM generate an entirely self-contained conversation now.

The conversation is why.

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mirekrusin a day ago | parent | prev [-]

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.