All modelsMODEL / FRONTIER COVERAGEBeamTYPEModelSIGNALS4FIRST SEENOct 5, 2026LAST SEENOct 16, 2026Recent signalsReflection’s Open-Weight Beam Model Oct 16, 2026Reflection AI releases Apache 2.0-licensed weights for Beam, a 501B-parameter model, trained with RL that penalized unnecessary tokens (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat) Oct 16, 2026Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost Oct 5, 2026NYC-based Reflection unveils Beam, an open model it says rivals GLM 5.2 on reasoning while using 3x-4x less compute and approaches Qwen3.8-Max on agentic tasks (Semafor) Oct 5, 2026RELATEDReflection AIOpen-weight modelsGLM-5.2CoreWeaveNvidiaVentureBeatSemaforALL MODELSLATEST SIGNAL