Reflection AI is positioning Beam to compete directly with leading Chinese open-weight models, including Z.ai's GLM-5.2, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI's Kimi K3

From the articleReflection AI Introduces Beam: A 501B Open-Weight MoE Model With 23B Active Parameters for Coding and Agentic WorkloadsAlso in Nvidia-backed Reflection unveils first AI model to take on Chinese open models | Reuters, Reflection AI boosts US ambition to compete with Chinese ‘open’ models, Reflection AI Unveils Open Model to Compete With US, China Rivals, Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost