NY-based Reflection unveils Beam, an open model it says rivals GLM 5.2 on reasoning, while using 3x-4x less compute, and Qwen3.8-Max on coding and agentic tasks (Semafor)

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Semafor : NY-based Reflection unveils Beam, an open model it says rivals GLM 5.2 on reasoning, while using 3x-4x less compute, and 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 Beam.

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