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Reflection AI co-founder and CEO Misha Laskin discusses Beam, described as the company’s 500-billion-parameter open-weight reasoning model, in a new No Priors podcast episode.
Why it mattersThe conversation ranges from how the model was trained to open versus closed AI, safety and the case for owning computing rather than renting it. The episode description outlines the subjects, not independent evidence of Beam’s capabilities; still, it gives readers a useful window into how Reflection is pitching its model and its ambitions.
Discuss: Should a powerful open-weight model’s release be judged mainly by what developers can build with it, or by how much control its creators retain over access and safeguards?
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