---
title: "Beam"
type: entity
entity_type: model
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/models/beam
updated: 2026-10-16T20:18:10.969Z
---

# Beam

Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/models/beam

- **Type:** Model
- **Signals:** 4
- **First seen:** Oct 5, 2026
- **Last seen:** Oct 16, 2026

## Recent signals

- [Reflection’s Open-Weight Beam Model](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/reflections-open-weight-beam-model-3adfaa37) (Oct 16, 2026)
- [Reflection AI releases Apache 2.0-licensed weights for Beam, a 501B-parameter model, trained with RL that penalized unnecessary tokens (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/reflection-ai-releases-apache-2-0-licensed-weights-for-beam-a-501b-2f590a9a) (Oct 16, 2026)
- [Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/reflection-debuts-beam-an-open-weight-ai-model-to-rival-chinese-models-40811a15) (Oct 5, 2026)
- [NYC-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)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/nyc-based-reflection-unveils-beam-an-open-model-it-says-rivals-glm-5-2-973001a5) (Oct 5, 2026)

## Related

- [Reflection AI](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/reflection-ai) (Company)
- [Open-weight models](https://frontiernewswire.com/topics/open-weight-models) (Topic)
- [GLM-5.2](https://frontiernewswire.com/models/glm-5-2) (Model)
- [CoreWeave](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/coreweave) (Company)
- [Nvidia](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/nvidia) (Company)
- [VentureBeat](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/venturebeat) (Company)
- [Semafor](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/semafor) (Company)

---

[All models](https://frontiernewswire.com/models) · [Latest Signal](https://frontiernewswire.com/)