Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale
lainsoykaf
19 points
2 comments
October 16, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
armcat
Looks like a potentially solid coding model, but this is also interesting: "Reaches comparable solution quality to leading open models using approximately 3x fewer inference-time reasoning tokens."
nozzlegear
Doesn't seem to be an MLX version available at the moment, unless I'm mistaken?