Release2026-10-05

Reflection introduced Beam, its first open-weight model. Beam is a 501B-parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 23B active parameters. It targets coding, reasoning, and agentic workloads. Pretraining used 23.8T high-quality tokens from web and licensed datasets. Reinforcement learning ran on 10.5K NVIDIA GB300 GPUs for four weeks. It generated over 100M rollouts with 256K-token context. Beam matches or outperforms similar open models on coding and agentic tasks. It achieves comparable scores to larger models while using 3–4× less inference compute. Early access is available via signup. Weights, technical report, model card, and developer artifacts will release later this month.

What changed

No prior Reflection open-weight model existed.

What it unlocks

Running coding and agentic workloads with 3–4× less inference compute than similar models.

  • 501B total parameters, 23B active
  • 23.8T pretraining tokens
  • 100M RL rollouts
  • 10.5K NVIDIA GB300 GPUs for 4 weeks

What you need to act on it

  • early access signup
  • final red-teaming and evaluations pending

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