Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale
Beam is focused on coding and agentic use cases.

Proof3 independent outlets1 community thread
Key points
- Reflection AI introduced Beam, an open-weight model for agentic coding and long-horizon tasks such as maintaining code, using tools, interpreting results, and completing multi-step workflows.
- Reflection's first open-weight model is now available on Ollama, and free for a limited time only.
- Startup Reflection AI Inc. today made the weights of Beam, its first large language model, available on Hugging Face.
- Beam is an open model built by Reflection.
Sources (5)
- [1]Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scaleHugging Face Blog · Oct 16, 12:00 AM
Beam is focused on coding and agentic use cases.
- [2]Introducing Reflection Beam: an open-weight model for agentic coding on AWSAWS Machine Learning Blog · Oct 16, 03:23 PM
Reflection AI introduced Beam, an open-weight model for agentic coding and long-horizon tasks such as maintaining code, using tools, interpreting results, and completing multi-step workflows.
- [3]Reflection's Beam is freely available on Ollama for a limited timeOllama Blog · Oct 16, 12:00 AM
Reflection's first open-weight model is now available on Ollama, and free for a limited time only.
- [4]Reflection AI open-sources Beam’s weights, post-training recipesSiliconANGLE: AI · Oct 16, 10:52 PM
Startup Reflection AI Inc. today made the weights of Beam, its first large language model, available on Hugging Face.
- [5]reflection/Beam-1.0-501B-A23B · Hugging Facer/LocalLLaMA (top, daily) · Oct 16, 01:23 PM
Beam is an open model built by Reflection.
Extractive summary: sentences quoted from the sources.
Before this
- Oct 15, 2026huggingface/transformers v5.20.0: Release v5.20.0
- Oct 15, 2026NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Powers Specialized Agents with Multimodal Reasoning
- Oct 15, 2026StepFun Releases Step 5 Preview Open Weights: 600B MoE, 27B Active, 1M Context
- Oct 15, 2026Local and Distributed Large LLM Inference with MLX and RDMA on Mac Studio
- Oct 15, 2026Welcome FLUX.3 Image Klein in Diffusers
- Oct 14, 2026NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM v1.4.0rc0
