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Reflection AI launches open model Beam in race with China
Original: Reflection AI unveils its first open model, Beam. Could it be America’s best chance to compete with China?
Reflection AI has unveiled Beam, its first open-weight AI model, a move the company and commentators frame as an American bid to compete with Chinese labs in the open-model space. With frontier development increasingly dominated by closed US systems and open alternatives largely from China, Beam is being pitched as a Western counterweight. Debate is focused on whether the model can genuinely close the gap.
Why now: A new American open AI model arrives amid growing concern that open-model leadership is shifting to China.
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