Release2026-10-16

Reflection released Beam 1.0, an open sparse mixture-of-experts model. It has 501B total parameters and 23B active parameters. It supports a 1M-token context window. It is available in BF16, FP8 and NVFP4 formats. It is designed for token-efficient reasoning, coding and agentic tool use. It was trained on web, code, technical and scientific data. It passed internal and third-party safety evaluations. It is licensed under Apache 2.0. It allows commercial and research use, including fine-tuning and distillation. Its knowledge cutoff is 30 June 2026.

What it unlocks

Running a 501B-parameter model with 23B active at a time for coding, reasoning and agent tasks.

  • 501.3B total parameters
  • 23.4B active parameters
  • 1M token context window
  • 2,930 downloads last month

What you need to act on it

  • Apache 2.0 license
  • commercial or research use allowed

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