What is Beam? The buzzy American AI model being called the 'DeepSeek of the West'

The company says it rivals some of China's leading open models while using far less computing power.
HackerNoon

Open Weight AI Is Moving the Competitive Advantage From Models to Inference

Open-weight AI is shifting competitive advantage from model training towards inference, routing, deployment infrastructure ...

OpenAI’s Ultrafast And Decisions API Shift AI Race To Speed, Cost

Does every AI task really need a genius? OpenAI and emerging competitors are betting that faster, cheaper decision models can ...

Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear

Salesforce Koa is built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model and is trained to do sales, marketing and customer-support tasks.
MarkTechPost

Reflection AI Introduces Beam: A 501B Open-Weight MoE Model With 23B Active Parameters for Coding and Agentic Workloads

Reflection AI's Beam is a 501B open-weight MoE with 23B active parameters, 1M context, and Apache 2.0 weights.

European AI flag bearer Mistral's new open weights model is 'Le Chonk'

Another week brings yet another open weights model and this one is huge — or at least it is for Europe's AI flag bearer ...