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Reflection AI open-sources 501B Beam model and training harness

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Reflection AI has released Beam, a 501 billion parameter open-weight model, under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. Alongside the model weights, the company has also open-sourced Mirror CLI, their training harness, which is considered a significant contribution for researchers and developers. Beam is designed for coding, reasoning, and agentic tasks, and includes DFlash2 for speculative decoding to improve agent latency, though independent benchmarks are not yet available. AI

IMPACT Open-sourcing the training harness alongside a large model could accelerate research and development in LLM training and fine-tuning.

RANK_REASON Frontier lab open-sourcing of a large model and its training harness. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Reflection AI open-sources 501B Beam model and training harness

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Paul Lovelace ·

    A Lab Just Open-Sourced Its Training Harness (Plus 501B Weights)

    <p>Reflection AI dropped Beam this week — 501 billion parameters of open weights under Apache 2.0. That's the headline. But here's what actually caught my eye: they also open-sourced Mirror CLI, their actual training harness. Meta never did that with Llama.</p> <p>I haven't run B…

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