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Reflection AI Drops Beam: The West's Answer to China's Open Models

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Breaking news from the open-weight AI frontier. A two-year-old Brooklyn startup just threw down the gauntlet against China's AI giants. Reflection AI has officially unveiled Beam, its first frontier open-weight model, meaning anyone can grab the weights and run it on their own infrastructure. Here'…

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  1. 2026-10-05 20:13 · DEV Community — AI
    Reflection AI Drops Beam: The West's Answer to China's Open Models

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