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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

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What happened

Article URL: https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969183 Points: 138 # Comments: 34…

Key facts

  • Article URL: https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969183 Points: 138 # Comments: 34…
  • Reported by Hacker News and published Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:16:35 UTC.

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  1. Lola Vision Systems is trying to make it easier to run AI models on chips

  2. Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

  3. Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost

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