I sometimes go through my Dropbox account and stare wistfully at my old proofs for Analysis or (graduate) Algorithms, thinking I used to be so smart. Then I snap out of it and reply “what??? Please elaborate” to a coding agent thread
Beam is now available across platforms, with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license - in collaboration with an ecosystem of 40+ partners.
We're releasing:
- Weights, tokenizer, and reference implementation
- BF16, FP8 and NVFP4 weights and a DFlash2 drafter
- The open source harness we built and trained Beam on: Mirror CLI
Weights and model card on Hugging Face: https://t.co/tPqWpk9RXL
Introducing Beam: a highly efficient agentic open model with 501B total parameters and 23B active.
- Frontier reasoning efficiency
- Advances the Western open frontier on coding & agentic tasks
- Trained end-to-end from scratch
Full weights release this month.
Learn more about Beam: https://t.co/c3Qx2cpM8G
now that every other person seems to be deep in the throes of AI psychosis it feels like the perfect time to relisten to the one record that first understood what it’s like to be thrust into a terrifying future you can barely understand, that best captures the histrionic doomerism of 2026, that really conveys what is it like to be sad and lonely and online, and also my favorite album since age twelve: ok computer https://t.co/44XbVzEztj
Let me answer honestly: I did eat your plums. I found them in the icebox, and I'm not going to pretend I didn't know you were keeping them for breakfast. I understand if you're upset by that. There's one more load-bearing detail I should mention: they were so sweet, and so cold.