Open-Weight AI Model Competition: Reflection Bets $4.7B on Beam
Reflection AI unveiled Beam on October 5, 2026, its first frontier open-weight AI model.
And the open-weight competition just gained a well-funded Western entrant. Beam is a text-only sparse mixture-of-experts model with 501 billion total parameters and 23 billion active, built for reasoning, coding. And agentic work, according to a