The startup has raised $4.6B from Nvidia, Sequoia, and Lightspeed to fund its development and has committed over $7B to compute through 2029. This includes a $1B agreement with Nebius and monthly payments of $150M to SpaceX for the Colossus cluster. While the model aims to match top open systems, industry sources expect it to initially trail the most advanced closed-source frontier systems in the U.S.
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Reflection Debuts First US Rival to DeepSeek With 501B Parameter Model
AI15 days ago
Two former Google DeepMind researchers have launched an agentic artificial intelligence system capable of autonomously handling coding and reasoning tasks. The software, known as Beam, features 501B total parameters and 23B active parameters, and is designed to provide a domestic alternative to lead open-weight systems from China such as DeepSeek and Qwen. Reflection intends to release the full weights of the model later this month, which will allow companies to customize the system using their own private data and compute resources.
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