Reflection's founders discuss building a DeepSeek of the West with Beam

Reflection is set to release Beam, its first open-weight AI model, aiming to become a Western counterpart to DeepSeek.

The source says Beam is trained from scratch for coding, reasoning, and AI agents, with benchmarks placing it alongside the strongest open models and more efficient token economics.

Reflection has raised $4.6 billion from investors including Nvidia, Sequoia, and Lightspeed, and the interview covers its monetization plans for open-weight models.