Open source · 21 October 2026
Reflection releases Beam, a 501B open-weight MoE, under Apache 2.0
Reflection put its first open-weight model, a 501B-parameter mixture-of-experts, on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0 around Oct 16, with day-0 support from Baseten. Sources conflict on exact release timing.
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