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Beam
watchingAnnounced Oct 5 · 501B MoE, 23B active · Apache 2.0 weights promised this month; early access by waitlist only. Swept every 60 seconds across provider catalogs. The moment it answers on a public API, alerts fire: a free Chrome push the second it's confirmed, a free email about 15 minutes later, texts or a call on paid plans.
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Reflection AI announced Beam today, its first open-weight model: a sparse Mixture-of-Experts with 501 billion total parameters and 23 billion active, built for coding, reasoning and agentic work. It is text-only. The weights are not out yet.
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Reflection AI.
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