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Reflection debuts Beam, a open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost
Publisher description: Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils Beam, its first open-weight model, which it says rivals GLM-5.2 on reasoning with far less inference compute. Weights are due this month.
TechCrunch | Oct 5, 2026 | Rebecca Bellan
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Reflection AI is officially unveiling Beam, its first frontier, open-weight AI model. Beam is a 501-billion-parameter model with 23 billion active parameters. Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations.
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