techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/reflection-debuts-beam-a-open-weight-ai-model-to-rival-chinese-models-at-lower-compute-cost Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost
Reflection AI's new open model, Beam, matches China's GLM-5.2 on reasoning benchmarks while using 3-4x less inference compute, the startup claims. The $25 billion-valued company, backed by $4.7 billion from Nvidia and others, is betting enterprises want a Western alternative to DeepSeek and Qwen.
— via TechCrunch, Rebecca Bellan
