Reflection AI's Beam praised as competitive without Claude distillation
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-06
Reflection AI's new Beam model is drawing attention. @DJLougen says the benchmarks looked meh at first, but the full model is genuinely strong and much smaller, fitting its intelligence on more diverse hardware. teortaxesTex adds that compressing trajectories with RL length penalties is straightforward if you have compute — the exciting part is that Beam appears not distilled from Claude at all, showing you can be competitive without "the taint of Claude."
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