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New Model: Reflection Beam is a new Open Weight Model

Hugging Face · Oct 17, 2026 · Product Launches

Reflection launches Beam, a new open-weight model with ecosystem-wide integrations on Hugging Face

“This is probably one of the most open releases we've been involved in.”

Reflection AI released Beam, a new open-weight model on Hugging Face with broad ecosystem support including inference, training, fine-tuning, and quantization integrations from SGLang, VLM teams, and others. The release is accompanied by 'Beam Build,' a community hackathon offering $10,000 cash and $10,000 in Hub credits to developers who build on the model. The release signals continued momentum in the open-weight model space but comes from a smaller player without disclosed benchmark comparisons or technical details in this content.

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