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What has happened with Beam since launch, in short, sourced updates.
Reflection updates Beam's benchmark table
An October 8 note on the launch post says Beam's results were revised.
Beam is not on OpenRouter, Ollama or Hugging Face yet
Distribution is thin until the weights ship.
Why Reflection is called the “DeepSeek of the West”
The nickname predates Beam, and launch coverage picked it up again.
Beam called the most capable open-weight model built outside China
But Reflection's own charts still put Chinese models ahead on many tests.
Beam's open weights are due “later this month”
Apache 2.0 license promised, but no date and nothing to download yet.
Inside Beam's training: 100 million RL rollouts on 10,500 GPUs
Reflection made reinforcement learning a main scaling axis, and says gains had not plateaued.
Beam's beta API is OpenAI-compatible
Model ID Beam-501B-A23B, 256K context and 128K output, available to early-access users.
Reflection AI unveils Beam, its first open-weight model
A 501B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts with 23B active, aimed at coding, reasoning and agents.