Open sourceOpen-source releaseLarge Language Models · Reasoning & Planning · Agents & Tool Use5 sources · Oct 16, 2026

Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale

Beam is focused on coding and agentic use cases.

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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.

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