Reflection AI, an Nvidia-backed startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, unveils Beam, its first open-weight AI model. The company presents Beam as built for coding, reasoning, and “agentic” tasks, and says it is designed to deliver strong reasoning performance while using less inference compute than competing models.

Multiple outlets report that Reflection positions Beam as able to match the reasoning performance of China’s GLM-5.2, citing efficiency gains. TechCrunch and The Next Web focus on the overall launch and the open-weight availability plan, while MarkTechPost provides more technical detail, describing Beam as a large sparse Mixture-of-Experts model. According to MarkTechPost, Beam is a 501B MoE model with 23B active parameters, and Reflection claims 3 to 4x lower inference compute for comparable reasoning.

All sources agree that Reflection plans to release Beam’s model weights later in October, with the company setting a specific timeline for public availability. The articles do not describe independent benchmark verification or pricing changes beyond the claimed compute-efficiency benefits.