GoKawiilReflection launches Beam, a high-performance open-weight AI model at lower compute costs
Reflection AI has introduced Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model designed for reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks. Trained on nearly 24 trillion tokens, Beam claims to match Chinese models' performance while requiring significantly less inference compute. The company positions Beam as a cost-effective alternative to both Western and Chinese AI models, targeting enterprise and public sector applications.