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Reflection Beam

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On Oct 16, AWS published a SageMaker deployment guide for Beam and vLLM shipped day-0 serving, so the 501B-A23B model now runs on both a managed endpoint and an open inference stack.

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Nvidia-backed Reflection AI was reported on Oct 5 to be preparing a "DeepSeek of the West" open model. Beam, a 501B-parameter model with 23B active, shipped Oct 6 and was framed against low-cost Chinese models.

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Oct 5Oct 16 · now
PRE-RELEASE · Oct 5
Nvidia-backed Reflection preps an open model, framed as a DeepSeek of the West
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LAUNCH · Oct 6
Beam (501B-A23B) released as an American open model
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REACTION · Oct 6
Coverage turns to Beam's position against low-cost Chinese models
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OWNERSHIP · Oct 10
Report: Nvidia pursues acquisition of Reflection to counter DeepSeek
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NOW · Oct 16
vLLM and AWS add Beam-1.0 deployment paths
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What to watch — open questions

  • How does Beam score against DeepSeek and Kimi on independent evals?
  • What license and per-token inference cost does Beam ship with on SageMaker and elsewhere?
  • Does Nvidia confirm an acquisition, and does Beam's open-weight license change?
  • Does the 2.71× vLLM decode speedup hold on hardware outside vLLM's own test setup?
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