Reflection AI to open-source 500B agentic model Beam under Apache 2.0 this month
bigblueboo · x · 2026-10-06
Reflection AI announced Beam, a 500B-parameter open model built for strong agentic performance, efficient reasoning, and enterprise/government/developer deployment as a "workhorse." Now in final-stage red-teaming, Beam will be released this month under Apache 2.0, alongside FP8 and NVFP4 quantized versions for efficient deployment. Early access sign-up is open.
Related event: Reflection AI Debuts Beam, a 501B-Parameter Open-Weight Model(20 posts)→
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