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Joseph Suarez, MIT PhD and PufferAI founder, challenges Reflection AI's open-source status after the company promoted models for the Genesis Mission despite zero public releases

Screenshots show Reflection AI's repo with no public models or datasets.

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@reflection_ai i want y'all to succeed but it's a little self-serving to say "America's open source AI lab" having released nothing

8:04 AM · May 22, 2026 View on X

Glad Nathan said it, and I'll go further. Raising on the promise of training models, shipping nothing public across a couple of years (not even an API), and continuing to raise off "mystery" is disingenuous; in EV it poisons the well for every new lab.

Nathan LambertNathan Lambert@natolambert

@reflection_ai i want y'all to succeed but it's a little self-serving to say "America's open source AI lab" having released nothing

3:04 PM · May 22, 2026 · 20.7K Views
1:18 AM · May 23, 2026 · 2.8K Views

@natolambert @reflection_ai Can Puffer claim that title if it is open?

Nathan LambertNathan Lambert@natolambert

@reflection_ai i want y'all to succeed but it's a little self-serving to say "America's open source AI lab" having released nothing

3:04 PM · May 22, 2026 · 20.7K Views
4:52 PM · May 22, 2026 · 1.2K Views

@natolambert @reflection_ai I'm with nathan on this one - really hoping to see more from reflection in the future, but this title currently belongs to Ai2, nvidia, etc.

Nathan LambertNathan Lambert@natolambert

@reflection_ai i want y'all to succeed but it's a little self-serving to say "America's open source AI lab" having released nothing

3:04 PM · May 22, 2026 · 20.7K Views
8:19 PM · May 22, 2026 · 764 Views
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