backed Reflection unveils first AI model to take on Chinese open models
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- ✓Nvidia-backed Reflection AI debuted its first open-weight model named Beam on Monday.
- ✓The startup aims to compete with lower-cost Chinese models in coding and agentic tasks.
- ✓Beam contains 501 billion total parameters but activates only 23 billion for each task, which helps the model run much faster and cheaper.
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- The Economic Times
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Nvidia-backed Reflection AI debuted its first open-weight model named Beam on Monday, as the startup aims to compete with lower-cost Chinese models such as DeepSeek and Kimi in coding and agentic tasks.
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Nvidia-backed Reflection AI debuted its first open-weight model named Beam on Monday, as the startup aims to compete with lower-cost Chinese models such as DeepSeek and Kimi in coding and agentic tasks.
Reflection said Beam is competitive with Chinese AI startup Z.ai's GLM‑5.2 and is closing in on Qwen3.8‑Max on coding and agentic tasks.
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The startup said that Beam contains 501 billion total parameters, or variables that determine how an AI system processes information, but activates only 23 billion for each task to make the model faster and cheaper to run by using only part of its network for each task.
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