Reflection AI and Hugging Face offer $20K for projects built on open 501B model Beam
ben_burtenshaw · x · 2026-10-22
Reflection AI partnered with Hugging Face on a competition: build anything with their open model Beam (Reflection/Beam-1.0-501B-A23B, a 23B-active MoE) and submit your link on the model repo page by Monday, November 2.
- Eligible projects include demos, datasets, model benchmarks, and RL environments.
- $20,000 in prizes, judged by the teams; winners choose cash or credits. Participants can also claim $25 in HF credits.
- The repo config shows Beam uses the Harmony wire format with analysis/final channels, builtin search/browse/bash tool declarations, and reasoningeffort levels from minimal (8) to max (512).
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