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ai morning #85 — reflection's beam claims the open-weight crown, then deepseek answers with $12b
Reflection AI, an Nvidia-backed startup, shipped Beam — a 501B-parameter open-weight model pitched as America's answer to China's open models. The celebration didn't survive contact with independent testing. Within a day, builders were showing it trailing GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3, with DeepSeek's free model still winning on simple tasks.
Marcus walks through Reflection's Beam launch, why builders like Bindu Reddy called the celebration premature within hours of the announcement, and what it means for anyone choosing an open-weight model this month.
In this episode:
00:00 Intro
01:36 Beam vs the…
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