Reflection AI claims its open-weight model Beam matches the performance of Z.ai's GLM-5.2 on reasoning benchmarks while using three to four times less inference compute

From the articleReflection AI Unveils Open Model to Compete With US, China RivalsAlso in Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost, Reflection AI Introduces Beam: A 501B Open-Weight MoE Model With 23B Active Parameters for Coding and Agentic Workloads