Reflection announces Beam. The weights aren't out yet.

HotTea: The AI Morning Briefing · Oct 6, 2026 · 4m · transcript

Reflection says Beam has 501 billion parameters, and downloads will arrive later this month. Outside testing has not checked its performance claims yet. This edition covers 5 evidence-backed stories. AI-generated narration. Find the complete briefing and source links at HotTea. https://hottea.ai/archive/2026-10-06?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=show_notes&utm_campaign=daily_briefing Sections 00:00 What we're covering today 00:30 1. Reflection introduces Beam, but its open weights are still to come 01:33 2. OpenAI starts text watermarking, with a restricted detector 02:19 3. Gallup finds that…