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Reflection Releases Open Model Beam

PLUS: OpenAI starts watermarking text

01 / Signal

Reflection is releasing Beam, its first open-weight model, aiming to be the DeepSeek of the West after raising $4.6 billion.

02 / Signal

Unlike Anthropic and Google, OpenAI is launching text watermarking only in the EU for now, not globally.

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