NY-based Reflection unveils Beam, an open model it claims rivals GLM 5.2 on reasoning while using 3x-4x less compute and approaches Qwen3.8-Max on agentic tasks (Semafor)

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<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/10/05/2026/reflection-ai-unveils-an-open-source-answer-to-chinese-labs">NY-based Reflection unveils Beam, an open model it claims rivals GLM 5.2 on reasoning while using 3x-4x less compute and approaches Qwen3.8-Max on agentic tasks</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Reflection AI, the startup billing itself as America's answer to open-source Chinese AI, is releasing its first model, called Beam.</p>

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