NYC-based Reflection unveils Beam, an open model it says rivals GLM 5.2 on reasoning while using 3x-4x less compute and approaches Qwen3.8-Max on agentic tasks (Semafor)

NYC-based Reflection has unveiled Beam, an open-weight model that reportedly rivals GLM 5.2 in reasoning capabilities while utilizing 3x-4x less compute. Beam also approaches the performance of Qwen3.8-Max on agentic tasks, and excels at coding. Reflection AI, positioning itself as America's answer to open-source Chinese AI, released Beam as its first model.