{
  "id": 14999748,
  "title": "Reflection AI releases Apache 2.0-licensed weights for Beam, a 501B-parameter model, trained with RL that penalized unnecessary tokens (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/reflection-ai-releases-apache-2-0-licensed-weights-for-beam-a-501b",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-16T16:40:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://venturebeat.com/technology/reflections-beam-aims-to-undercut-chinese-open-models-with-fewer-tokens-not-cheaper-tokens"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Reflection AI today released the weights of Beam, its first open model, and is pitching it against the Chinese open models that many U.S. companies …",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}