Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale

Beam is a new 501B parameter open model released on Hugging Face that is designed for local customization and scalable deployment. By providing an open-weight architecture, the release allows developers to integrate the model into private infrastructure without relying on external APIs. This development follows a growing trend of making high-capacity models accessible for specialized enterprise use cases where data privacy and compute control are requirements.