Nvidia-Backed Reflection Unveils Beam AI Model to Compete with China
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Reflection AI, an artificial intelligence startup from two former Google DeepMind researchers, has unveiled a new open-weight model called Beam that it says rivals leading options in the US and China. The model is designed to excel at coding and agentic tasks while using 3x-4x less compute than comparable models, with weights expected to be released this month.
The New York-based company, backed by Nvidia, has already secured deals with several U.S. government agencies and billion-dollar compute agreements. Beam is positioned as America's answer to open-source Chinese AI, aiming to compete effectively against models like GLM-5.2.
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“Reflection AI, an artificial intelligence startup from two former Google DeepMind researchers, has unveiled a new open-weight model that it says rivals leading options in the US and China.”
Bloomberg — Nvidia-Backed Reflection Unveils Open AI Model, Taking on China“Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils Beam, its first open-weight model, which it says rivals GLM-5.2 on reasoning with far less inference compute.”
TechCrunch — Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost“The New York-based company already has deals with several U.S. government agencies, and billion-dollar compute agreements.”
Fortune — Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils its first open model, Beam. Could it be America’s best chance to compete with China?“Semafor: Reflection unveils open-weight model Beam, saying it excels at coding and agentic tasks, uses 3x-4x less compute than comparable models, and nears Qwen 3.8-Max — Reflection AI, the”
techmeme — Reflection unveils open-weight model Beam, saying it excels at coding and agentic tasks, uses 3x-4x less compute than comparable models, and nears Qwen 3.8-Max (Semafor)
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- Oct 5, 7:00 PM — Nvidia-Backed Reflection Unveils Open AI Model Taking on China (2/2)