Reflection unveils Beam, its first open-weight AI model for coding and reasoning

Reflection says Beam scores comparably to GLM-5.2 on advanced reasoning benchmarks while using 3–4 times less inference compute. TechCrunch says the performance claims have not been independently verified. Reflection is offering early access to select users and plans to release the model’s weights under an Apache 2.0 license in October 2026.