Overview
Reflection AI is a Brooklyn-based frontier AI lab founded in 2024 by ex-google-deepmind researchers. The company has raised ~25B pre-money valuation and pursues sovereign open-weight model strategy.
Recent Developments
- 2026-10-05: Unveils beam-model — 501B MoE (23B active), 1M context, Apache 2.0 weights due October 2026 (2026-10-05-reflection-beam-official-blog)
- Claims GLM-5.2 parity on reasoning at 3-4x lower inference compute; self-reported benchmarks unverified
- $6.3B+ compute deals with SpaceX and Nebius for Nvidia GB300 through 2029
- Beam in final red-teaming; early access via waitlist only
Warning
All Beam benchmark claims are company-reported; weights not yet released as of announcement date.