Reflection Ships Beam: 501B Open Model Challenges Chinese AI
ALEX: Welcome to The AI Daily Roundup for October 6th, 2026. Reflection finally shipped — after more than a year in stealth, Beam is out: 501 billion parameters, 23 billion active, open weights. SARAH: That's the company that made some very bold claims about RL-driven coding models before going quie…
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