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

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Confidence
90%
Impact: 80%
Updated Oct 20

Consensus Brief

Beam is a new open model developed by Reflection, featuring 501 billion parameters and designed for coding and agentic use cases. It supports a context window of 1 million tokens and is released under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing teams to customize and deploy it on their own infrastructure.

What Changed Since Last Update

Oct 20

New official source added: Hugging Face published an update on Fri, 16 Oc ("Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale").

Claim Ledger

4 claims tracked across sources

Confirmed Fact

Beam has 501 billion parameters with 23 billion active per token.

Confirmed Fact

Beam supports a context window of 1 million tokens.

Confirmed Fact

Beam is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Official Claim

Reflection is giving out $10,000 Hub credits for the best projects using Beam.

Role-Based Impact Analysis

Source Timeline

30 sources corroborating