NY-based Reflection unveils Beam, an open model it says rivals Qwen3.8-Max on coding and agentic tasks and GLM 5.2 on reasoning, while using 3x-4× less compute (Semafor)
Semafor : NY-based Reflection unveils Beam, an open model it says rivals Qwen3.8-Max on coding and agentic tasks and GLM 5.2 on reasoning, while using 3x-4 less compute Reflection AI, the startup billing itself as America's answer to open-source Chinese AI, is releasing its first model, called Beam.
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