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Reflection introduces Beam open-weight model with lower compute claims
TechCrunch reports Reflection AI unveiled Beam, an open-weight model. Reflection says the text-only mixture-of-experts model is for reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks, keeps pace with top Chinese open models on advanced reasoning benchmarks, and uses “3-4x less inference compute.”
Why it matters. Developers get an open-weight text-only model for coding and agentic tasks that Reflection says uses “3-4x less inference compute.”
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