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Reflection AI releases Apache 2.0-licensed weights for Beam, a 501B-parameter model, trained with RL that penalized unnecessary tokens

Reflection AI today released the weights of Beam, its first open model, and is pitching it against the Chinese open models that many U.S. companies …

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Reflection AI releases Apache 2.0-licensed weights for Beam, a 501B-parameter model, trained with RL that penalized unnecessary tokens

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