Beam: 501B Open Model With 23B Active, Full Weights This Month, 3-4x More Efficient Than GLM 5.2
TorturedPoet30 · reddit · 2026-10-06
- Reflection AI's Beam has 501B total and 23B active parameters; full weights ship later this month after final red-teaming and evals.
- It focuses on coding and agentic performance, claimed 3-4x more efficient than GLM 5.2 and over 4x more efficient than leading Western open models.
Related event: Reflection AI Debuts Beam, a 501B-Parameter Open-Weight Model(20 posts)→
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