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Reflection's Beam is open: 23B active, but you still have to fit 501B

Community description: What Reflection released with Beam, why Apache 2.0 matters, and the memory math most coverage skipped.

Dev.to | Oct 18, 2026 | Clydara

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Reflection released the weights for Beam on October 16, 2026. It is the lab's first open-weight model: a sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 501B total parameters, about 23B active per token, a 1M-token context window, and an Apache 2. 0 license. Knowledge cutoff: June 30, 2026 (model card).

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