Reflection AI on October 5, 2026 unveiled Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model it says matches China’s GLM-5.2 while using 3 to 4 times less inference compute. The New York lab, founded in 2024 by former DeepMind researchers, is taking waitlist sign-ups while the model finishes red-teaming. Full weights, a technical report, and a model card … [Read more…]