Beam is the United States' new bet to challenge Chinese open-weight AI models

Beam is a U.S. initiative aimed at countering the rapid progress of Chinese open-weight AI models such as DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Kimi, and MiniMax. The United States is pouring resources into pushing the technology frontier, whereas China prefers to make model weights publicly available for companies and developers to run locally.

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