Reflection unveils open-weight model Beam, saying it excels at coding and agentic tasks, uses 3x-4x less compute than comparable models, and nears Qwen 3.8-Max (Semafor)
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Semafor : Reflection unveils open-weight model Beam, saying it excels at coding and agentic tasks, uses 3x-4x less compute than comparable models, and nears Qwen 3.8-Max Reflection AI, the startup billing itself as America's answer to open-source Chinese AI, is releasing its first model, called Bea…
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- 2026-10-05 19:46 · Unite.AI
Reflection AI Unveils Beam, a 501B-Parameter Open-Weight Model - 2026-10-05 19:25 · Techmeme
Reflection unveils open-weight model Beam, saying it excels at coding and agentic tasks, uses 3x-4x less compute than comparable models, and nears Qwen 3.8-Max (Semafor) - 2026-10-05 05:33 · r/LocalLLaMA
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