Hugging Face Beam: 501B open model you can actually own
ALEX: Welcome to The AI Daily Roundup for October 17th, 2026. Half a trillion parameters — and you can download every single one of them. Hugging Face just dropped Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open model pitched on ownership rather than API access. SARAH: That's the largest openly available model a…
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