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Reflection's Beam debuts as the most capable open-weight model built outside China while Mist
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Reflection debuts Beam, its first open-weight model
Reflection AI released Beam, a 501-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that activates 23 billion parameters per token and targets coding and agentic workloads. It is billed as the most capable open-weight model built outside China, pitched at enterprises and sovereign nations through an 'AI factories' offering at lower compute cost.
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DeepSeek nears $12 billion funding round backed by CATL and Tencent
DeepSeek is close to raising at least $12 billion in a new funding round with backing from CATL and Tencent, as the AI startup eyes a 2027 IPO, Bloomberg reports.
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Cohere launches North 2 as an enterprise AI agent control center that works with any model
Cohere turned its enterprise platform into a control center for AI agents with North 2, which handles multi-step workflows on their own, retains context across tasks, and works with any model.
Business and markets
Agents and workflows
- Introducing GLM 5.3 on Amazon Bedrock AWS Machine Learning
- MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of Ars Technica AI
- Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account TechCrunch AI
- TikTok rolls out an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout TechCrunch AI
- New agent skill: Amazon SageMaker optimized generative AI inference for your coding agent AWS Machine Learning
Developer platforms
- Reflection's Beam becomes the most capable open-weight model built outside China The Decoder
- v2.1.290 Claude Code Releases
- OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT text in the EU but makes it optional for API users worldwide The Decoder
Enterprise
- Responsible AI governance: How AWS positions customers to align with ISO/IEC 42005:2025 AWS Machine Learning
- Cohere pitches North 2 as the enterprise AI control room that works with any model The Decoder
- Expanding our enterprise inference capacity with IBM Cloud and NVIDIA Together AI
- Gemini Call for Me might tell your mom you’re running late The Verge AI
- Meta and Microsoft pull back from Claude as Anthropic transforms from partner into competitor The Decoder
- HackerRank’s AI interviewer offers a glimpse into what job interviews could become TechCrunch AI
Product updates
- LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature TechCrunch AI
- Mistral Large 4 is Europe's trillion-parameter answer to US models that refuse security work The Decoder
- How Jump Trading is scaling quant research with ChatGPT OpenAI News
- Meet Together Link: A Free CLI That Runs Open Models Like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 Inside Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode MarkTechPost
- Reflection AI Introduces Beam: A 501B Open-Weight MoE Model With 23B Active Parameters for Coding and Agentic Workloads MarkTechPost
- OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU TechCrunch AI
- Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost TechCrunch AI
- Supercharge regulated workloads with Claude Code and Amazon Bedrock AWS Machine Learning