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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

Source
reflection.ai
Author
Philpax
Date
Why it matters

A new Western model (501B total, 23B active) targets coding and agentic work, with efficiency as its pitch. Weights are due this month, so self-hosting teams can plan evaluations now.

Terms in this piece · Glossary
  • mixture-of-experts — A model built from many specialist sub-networks where only a few activate per token, giving big-model capability at small-model running cost.
  • token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
  • open weights — A model whose trained parameters are published for anyone to download and run — unlike API-only models you can access but never possess.
  • inference — Running a trained model to get answers — the phase where AI is actually used, as opposed to trained.
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