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I watched a 501B model from a billion dollar lab fail 5 times on one tool call. And my startup just got a reason to exist.

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So I was building my first YouTube video, footage done, VO in progress, and I left Beam running in the background. Beam . You know Beam right? Reflection AI's new monster. 501B total params, 23B active per token, 1M context, Apache 2.0 license, built from scratch for coding and agents. Lab founded…

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  1. 2026-10-25 09:15 · DEV Community — AI
    I watched a 501B model from a billion dollar lab fail 5 times on one tool call. And my startup just got a reason to exist.

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