Reflection AI launches Beam, a low-cost open-weight model for reasoning
Reflection AI has unveiled Beam, an open-weight model claiming to match Chinese rivals in reasoning while using significantly less inference compute.
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Reflection AI has unveiled Beam, an open-weight model claiming to match Chinese rivals in reasoning while using significantly less inference compute.
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