# 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.

- Published: 2026-10-17T06:12:13.157Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-10-17/reflection-offers-its-501-billion-parameter-beam-model-free
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Ollama](https://ollama.com/blog/reflection-beam), [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/reflection-debuts-beam-a-open-weight-ai-model-to-rival-chinese-models-at-lower-compute-cost/), [How2Shout](https://www.how2shout.com/ai/reflection-ai-beam-open-weight-model.html), [ossbeat](https://ossbeat.com/posts/reflection-beam/), [The Hill](https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6130496-reflection-ai-releases-beam-model/), [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/05/reflection-ai-introduces-beam-a-501b-open-weight-moe-model-with-23b-active-parameters-for-coding-and-agentic-workloads/)

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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