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

TechCrunch AIOctober 5, 2026en

Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build “AI factories,” a product that would let institutions build their own customized, local AI system by training Reflection’s AI models on their own proprietary data.

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