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By The Zookeeper in Hugging Face —

Welcome Beam Wants You to Own Your Own LLM

The claim: Welcome Beam is a 501B open model designed to be owned, customised, and scaled directly by enterprises seeking autonomy from major cloud providers.

The reality: Running a model of this scale requires dedicated hardware costing thousands of dollars a month in GPU rental, turning true ownership into a very expensive hobby.

Why should I care? You shouldn't
Another open model launch that ignores the five-figure infrastructure bill required to actually run it.

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

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