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Reflection releases Beam, a 501B open-weight coding and agent model

Beam-1.0-501B-A23B is a sparse MoE with about 23B active parameters, a 1M-token context and an Apache 2.0 license, per third-party coverage of the model card. Benchmark tables reportedly changed between page versions.

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