AI Launch Profile
Reflection Beam 1.0
Reflection Beam 1.0 has downloadable official weights under Apache 2.0. Its repository release commit is dated October 16, separate from the October 5 announcement that described a planned release. The initial artifact contains the model weights, configuration and tokenizer files. Reflection describes Beam as an instruction-tuned text model for reasoning, coding and agentic tool use. Kingy checked the official file listing and license for this entry; it did not download the weights or independently reproduce the vendor benchmark results. The commit date does not independently establish the exact first public-visibility time.
At a glance
Launch Snapshot
- Company
- Reflection AI
- Launch date
- October 16, 2026
- Launch type
- Model Release
- Category
- AI Open-Weight Models
- Audience
- AI Agent Developers, Developers
- Pricing
- Hosted prices and self-hosting costs were not reviewed in this artifact-and-license check.
- Free plan
- Not publicly confirmed
- API
- Not publicly confirmed
- Open weights/source
- Yes
Launch Context
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Verification & Sources
- Evidence state
- Source-verified
- Source links
- 4
- Freshness
- Checked October 28, 2026
- Last verified
- October 28, 2026
- Last updated
- October 28, 2026
What this evidence state means
- Definition
- The stated claim was checked against a named primary or authoritative source. This does not mean Kingy tested the product.
- Required provenance
- At least one public, named primary or authoritative source that directly supports the claim.
- Owner
- Kingy editorial reviewer
- Freshness rule
- Recheck within 30 days and after a material product, price, access, or source change.
- Disputes and corrections
- Use “Suggest a correction” on the record. Kingy editorial reviews the cited evidence, records material corrections, and changes or removes the state when it is not supported.
Key source checks
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Kingy AI Take
Beam 1.0 now provides a pinned Apache 2.0 checkpoint for teams considering a self-hosted coding pilot. Its 501B total parameters make serving cost and workload tests necessary before adoption; this review checks artifacts and licensing only.
Who it is for
Text generation, reasoning, coding and agentic tool use
What feels promising
Text generation, reasoning, coding and agentic tool use. Pinned official download and license links make the reviewed artifact identifiable.
What feels unproven
Source-only artifact and license review on October 28, 2026 (America/Vancouver). No new hands-on test, weight download, inference run, latency test, or independent benchmark reproduction.
Source-backed record
Evidence sources
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