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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
Reflection's new open-weight Beam model is a 501B sparse Mixture-of-Experts model optimized for coding and agentic workloads, offering competitive performance with frontier models like Qwen 3.8-Max while using significantly less inference compute.
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