Reflection unveils open-weight model Beam, saying it excels at coding and agentic tasks, uses 3x-4x less compute than comparable models, and nears Qwen3.8-Max (Semafor)
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Semafor : Reflection unveils open-weight model Beam, saying it excels at coding and agentic tasks, uses 3x-4x less compute than comparable models, and nears Qwen3.8-Max — 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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