I had a similar experience. I restarted the Mac holding down CMD+R and chose "Reinstall MacOS." It worked.
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Check Feedback Assistant, specifically known issues with Big Sur. You'll find what you're reporting is known issue.
Known Issues
If you updated to macOS Big Sur 11 beta from a previous version of macOS, Software Update might show "Unable to check for updates - Failed to download the documentation for the minor update. Please try again later". (63158434)
Workaround:
Start up from macOS Recovery.
If your data volume is encrypted, use Disk Utility to mount it.
In Terminal type rm -rf "/Volumes/Macintosh HD - Data/private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000y800007k".
Restart your Mac.
There is additional data which is helpful. I suggest you review it, since it doesn't apply to everyone.
Hope this helps.
My MacBookPro 15" Retina had the same issue when I installed MacOS 11. I didn't plan to but my last beta update for Catalina was corrupt and the only way I could gaing contol was to do a CMD R and reinstall. It chose Big Sur. Since it couldn't identify my WiFi network on retart after install, there was no way to trouble shoot. So I found a Cat5 cable and headed to my router. As soon as plugged in the Cat5 into Thunderbolt adapter, it found everything, connected to Ethernet and WiFi simultaneously. Give that a shot and see if that helps.