SCOUT· 35%1h 09m·2026-10-09·TechnologyBeam: The Great American Open Model with ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin
Is the future of frontier AI open or closed? ReflectionAI co-founder and CEO Misha Laskin joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the launch of Beam, the company’s 500 billion parameter open-weight reasoning model. Misha breaks down the pre-training and reinforcement learning required to produce Beam’s reasoning…
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