Beam Called an Iso-Flop Replication of DeepSeek V3: Same FLOPs Two Years Later, Far Worse Efficiency
mike64_t · x · 2026-10-06
teortaxesTex calculates that Reflection's Beam (23B×23.8T tokens) is an iso-flop replication of DeepSeek V3 (37B×14.8T), ratio ≈0.9996 — the same compute two years later, but not V3's efficiency: a gimped H100 in quant-savvy Chinese hands beats a GB300 in NVL72. mike64t cites it as exhibit A that Western labs can't pre-train.
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