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Morning Edition · Saturday, October 17, 2026Published at 2:12 AM EDT · New York
Reflection offers its 501-billion-parameter Beam model free on Ollama Cloud for a limited time, before releasing the weights
Reflection's own benchmark table shows Chinese open models ahead on most agentic-coding rows, so its case rests on a claim that Beam needs three to four times less inference compute than GLM 5.2.
Ollama now offers Beam, Reflection AI's first open-weight model, free for a limited time through Ollama Cloud. Reflection designed Beam for software engineering, reasoning and long-running agent tasks. Access through Ollama Cloud is hosted…
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Frontier Model Efficiency Gains
Capability per unit of training and inference compute keeps improving, letting newer models match prior frontier performance far more cheaply and gradually loosening the link between raw scale and capability.
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