Nvidia-backed US start-up unveils AI model to challenge China’s open-weight lead - South China Morning Post
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Chong Ming LeePublished: 3:00pm, 6 Oct 2026Updated: 3:27pm, 6 Oct 2026An Nvidia-backed US start-up has unveiled an open-weight model to challenge China’s dominance in freely available artificial intelligence, releasing a system that early third-party testing suggests could be one...
Chong Ming LeePublished: 3:00pm, 6 Oct 2026Updated: 3:27pm, 6 Oct 2026An Nvidia-backed US start-up has unveiled an open-weight model to challenge China’s dominance in freely available artificial intelligence, releasing a system that early third-party testing suggests could be one of the most token-efficient open models in its class.
Reflection AI on Monday debuted Beam, its first open-weight model built for coding, reasoning and agentic tasks.
The US firm said Beam was “competitive” with GLM-5.2 from Z.ai – also known as Zhipu AI – and was “approaching” Alibaba Group Holding’s Qwen3.8-Max on coding and agentic workflows, although Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 remained ahead in “raw capability”. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.
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