On October 17, 2026, Aditya Agarwal announced that next week he will welcome his friend Sriram Krishnan to @spc for a fireside chat and Q&A. In his preview, he mentioned Krishnan's career: he helped build Azure, led the scaling of Meta's mobile ads, drove a16z's international expansion, and later joined the White House to help draft the U.S. AI Action Plan. Currently, this news comes from only one source, posted by Aditya Agarwal himself, and there have been no subsequent developments.
On October 16, 2026, Artificial Analysis published the evaluation results for Beam, the first model from Reflection: Beam scored 30 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ranking second among US open-weight models, behind only Meta's Muse Spark Open (39) and ahead of NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (26). The model is an open-weight model with 501B total parameters and 23B activated parameters, consuming about 26k output tokens per intelligence index task, of which about 19k are used for reasoning and 7k for answering; it scored 48.5% on AutomationBench-AA and only 3.0% on Terminal-Bench 4.0; AA-Omniscience accuracy was 33% with a hallucination rate of 47%. On October 17, Arena.ai announced that Beam-1.0-501B-A23B entered Agent Arena, ranking 12th among open-weight models with a Net Improvement of -3.67% and a margin of error of ±3.84%; on the Code Arena: WebDev open-source leaderboard it ranked 22nd with a score of 1438.
evaluation results for Beam, the first model from Reflection: Beam scored 30 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ranking second among US open-weight models, behind only Meta's Muse Spark Open (39) and ahead of NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (26). The model is an open-weight model with 501B total parameters and 23B activated parameters, consuming about 26k output tokens per intelligence index task, of which about 19k are used for reasoning and 7k for answering; it scored 48.5% on Autom