Day 0 support for Reflection’s Beam on Google Cloud: 5x faster perf with llm-d and NVIDIA Dynamo
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Today, Reflection released Beam , its first open-weight model built to give developers, researchers, and enterprises open control and customization for frontier software engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks. Released under a permissive Apache 2.0 license with BF16 , FP8 , and NVFP4 checkpoints available at launch, Beam sets a new standard for inference efficiency in the 500B-parameter class…
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