Reflection raised ~$4.6B. Beam may have consumed ~$60M in GPU compute, ~1.3% of the capital raised.
Reflection disclosed:
6,144 GB300s à 4 weeks pretraining
= 4.1M GPU-hours
10,500 GB300s à 4 weeks RL
= 7.1M GPU-hours
Total: ~11.2M GB300 hours
At ~$5/GPU-hour: $56M.
And that excludes failed runs, scaling experiments, mid-training, data generation and 1.3B sandbox environments. In total probably ~$50â80M.
RL used ~70% more compute than pretraining.
The playbook is shifting from pre-training bigger models to training models harder.
Introducing Beam: a highly efficient agentic open model with 501B total parameters and 23B active.
- Frontier reasoning efficiency
- Advances the Western open frontier on coding & agentic tasks
- Trained end-to-end from scratch
Full weights release this month.
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