
Reflection Beam Is Out: 501B Open Weights on Hugging Face, Apache 2.0
Reflection released Beam, a 501B open-weight MoE (23B active, 1M context, Apache 2.0). Benchmarks, hardware needs, vLLM and SGLang commands, and caveats.

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Reflection released Beam, a 501B open-weight MoE (23B active, 1M context, Apache 2.0). Benchmarks, hardware needs, vLLM and SGLang commands, and caveats.

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