Reflection's 501-billion-parameter model is now free to download.
US lab Reflection released the weights of its Beam model on Friday under the Apache 2.0 licence. Anyone may use, change or sell it, and it reads up to a million tokens at once. More than 40 cloud and tool firms already host it, and Nvidia is reportedly in talks to buy Reflection.
Why it mattersCompanies can now run a strong American coding model on their own servers without paying per use. Until now, most free models this large came from Chinese labs.
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