Ten thousand GPUs for Beam: researcher stuns at the scale of compute spend
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-13
Former Tesla/OpenAI researcher yacineMTB reacts in disbelief that a project called Beam is training on ten thousand GPUs, noting each rack is worth more than the net worth of the average Ottawa family.
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