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Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost.

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Reflection AI introduced Beam, an open-source large language model with 501 billion parameters, aimed at enterprises and sovereign nations.

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Reflection debuted Beam, an open-weight AI model, and is aiming it and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build "AI factories" that let institutions train Reflection's models on their own proprietary data to create customized local AI systems.

Why it matters: It offers institutions a way to build customized local AI systems using an open-weight model trained on their own data.

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Reflection AI debuts open-source Beam model with 501B parameters

Reflection AI debuts open-source Beam model with 501B parameters
SiliconANGLE AI · 06 Oct 2026, 00:46

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