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

Who's funding this?

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

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

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

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.

Profit. Always.

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

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.

Try using the same Internet that you used to download templeos to search for stuff.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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