Reflection Releases Beam Open-Weight AI Model Claiming High Efficiency
Reflection released Beam, an open-weight AI model that uses three to four times less inference compute while remaining competitive with larger models like GLM 5.2, according to Andrey Kerenkov and Jeremy Harris.
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“Reflection releasing Beam, an open-weight AI model that they say can rival Chinese models at lower consume cost.”
Andrey Kerenkov
Heard on Last Week in AI — “#260 - Muse, Misalignment, Math”, published Monday, October 19, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.