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Nvidia-Backed Reflection AI Launches 'Beam' Open-Weight Model
The Indian Express1h
THE BRIEF
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Nvidia-backed Reflection AI launched its first open-weight model named Beam on Monday to compete with lower-cost Chinese models in coding and agentic tasks.
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Beam features 501 billion total parameters while activating only 23 billion parameters per task to optimise processing speed and operational cost.
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Founded in 2024 by former DeepMind researchers, the startup previously secured a deal with SpaceX for additional computing capacity at its Colossus 2 data centre.