Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost
TechCrunch | 06.10.2026 02:33
Reflection AI is officially unveiling Beam, its first frontier, open-weight AI model. The two-year-old startup claims Beam matches the performance of leading Chinese open models on advanced reasoning benchmarks at dramatically lower costs, a claim that could heat up the race to build a Western answer to DeepSeek, Qwen, and Z.ai.
