Reflection Claims Beam Offers Frontier Reasoning 4 Times Cheaper Than GLM-5.2
Summary
Reflection launches Beam, an open-source model with more than 500 billion parameters that the New York startup claims delivers frontier reasoning up to four times cheaper than GLM-5.2. Google separately released EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740 million parameter model for on-device code, image, video and audio tasks, narrowing the gap between US and Chinese open models.
Key Points
- US open models are closing the gap with China as Google releases EmbeddingGemma 2 on Tuesday, a 740 million parameter open-source model Google calls its most capable for on-device work.
- EmbeddingGemma 2 handles code, images, video and audio beyond text, needs only 270 million parameters for text-only workloads, and is best-in-class for embedded models under 1 billion parameters.
- New York startup Reflection launches Beam on Monday, a 500 billion plus parameter open-source model the company claims offers frontier reasoning up to four times cheaper than GLM-5.2.