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Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale
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Fusion42 · 16 October 2026 · Fusion42 review
Reflection released Beam, a 501-billion parameter open-source mixture-of-experts large language model focused on coding and agentic applications with a context window of 1 million tokens, available under Apache 2.0 license for customization and scaling on user hardware.
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You can run a frontier-scale model on your own hardware with full control to customise it for coding and agentic AI use cases. This opens competitive routes to deliver long-context agentic solutions without dependency on closed-source providers.
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