What is Beam? The buzzy American AI model being called the 'DeepSeek of the West'
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If Beam can match leading open Chinese models with materially less compute, the competitive axis shifts from raw scale to efficiency and deployment cost. For teams choosing a backbone model, start adding energy and hardware footprint — not just benchmark scores and licensing — into your vendor evaluation grid.
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