Reflection unveils Beam, an open model it says rivals GLM 5.2 on reasoning while using 3x-4× less compute and approaches Qwen3.8-Max on coding and agentic tasks (Semafor)
Semafor : Reflection unveils Beam, an open model it says rivals GLM 5.2 on reasoning while using 3x-4 less compute and approaches Qwen3.8-Max on coding and agentic tasks 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 19:25 · Techmeme
Reflection unveils Beam, an open model it says rivals GLM 5.2 on reasoning while using 3x-4× less compute and approaches Qwen3.8-Max on coding and agentic tasks (Semafor)
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