Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost

Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost

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.

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