Reflection AI is officially unveiling Beam, its first frontier, open-weight AI model. The two-year-old startup claims Beam matches the performance of leading Chinese open models on advanced reasoning benchmarks at dramatically lower costs, a claim that could heat up the race to build a Western answer to DeepSeek, Qwen, and Z.ai. Reflection’s announcement confirms reporting
The most powerful AI models are often run inside the labs that build them with key safeguards switched off. And the safety tests those labs publish may not reflect how the models are actually used. That’s according to two AI policy researchers at the think tank GovAI. “We can’t trust them completely to tell us
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Welcome to Eye on AI. Beatrice Nolan here. In today’s issue: But first, before we get to the news. Today is the inaugural Fortune AIQ Summit, where leaders are sharing lessons on how Fortune 500 companies are managing to implement AI successfully. You can read our coverage of the event here. And, you can read
For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won’t happen until the company can make better promises about model safety, with no firm timeline in sight. “We intend to continue with AI progress … but as the models have had this surge forward in capability, and we see
The Madrid Audiovisual Cluster (MAC), an economic interest group comprising close to 100 Madrid-based companies, has put together a two-day industry networking and peer-learning program at the Iberseries & Platino confab, taking place over Sept. 29 – Oct. 2 in the Spanish capital. AI takes center stage again but the program will attempt to delve
