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

TechCrunch - Oct 5, 2026

Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build “AI factories,” a product that would let institutions build their own customized, local AI system by training Reflection’s AI models on their own proprietary data.

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