Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost
Reflection AI is officially unveiling Beam, its first frontier, open-weight AI model. The two-year-old, Brooklyn-based startup claims Beam matches the performance of leading Chinese open models on advanced reasoning benchmarks at dramatically lower costs, a claim that could heat up the race to build a Western answer to DeepSeek, Qwen, and Z.ai. Reflection’s announcement confirms reporting from Axios over the weekend that the startup was close to a launch. The company shared new details in a len
Reflection AI is officially unveiling Beam, its first frontier, open-weight AI model. The two-year-old, Brooklyn-based startup claims Beam matches the performance of leading Chinese open models on advanced reasoning benchmarks at dramatically lower costs, a claim that could heat up the race to build a Western answer to DeepSeek, Qwen, and Z.ai. Reflection’s announcement confirms reporting from Axios over the weekend that the startup was close to a launch. The company shared new details in a lengthy blog post Monday, which described Beam as a text-only mixture-of-experts model trained on…