Reflection product team hosts AMA on Beam, its open-weight 501B model
Aggressive-Sign-8167 · reddit · 2026-11-03
Reflection AI's product team is hosting an AMA on r/LocalLLaMA about Beam, the open-weight 501B model they launched earlier this month.
- Attending: Sanyam Bhutani and Florent Gbelidji (OSS), Chetan Tekur (PM, OSS + Mirror), Yufeng Guo (Technical Community Lead), Abby Reider (Tech Comms)
- Training/methodology questions are deferred to a future session with the research team
- Resources: weights on huggingface.co/reflection, docs at developers.reflection.ai, platform at platform.reflection.ai, plus X and Discord
Related event: Reflection Team Hosts Reddit AMA on Open-Weight Model Beam(2 posts)→
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