🎙 EP 370: Reflection AI Drops 501B Beam & Reveal Power-User AI Spend Disparity
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Reflection AI unveiled Beam, a 501B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) open-weight model with 23B active parameters per token, claiming performance parity with Chinese GLM and DeepSeek reasoning baselines at a fraction of the inference compute. Meanwhile, Andreessen Horowitz released its latest Top 100 Consumer AI Apps report, revealing that the top 1% of AI power users generate nearly 20% of total consumer AI spending, averaging $903 per month on specialized coding and automation…
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