Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost
Reflection AI is officially unveiling Beam, its first frontier, open-weight AI model. The two-year-old, Brooklyn-based startup claims Beam…
I Got Fired Twice. It Led Me to Start My Own Company.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Alex Stephany, founder of Beam. It has been edited…
A new, ultrabright laser powers a cryo-EM advance 15 years in the making
Key Insights Cryo-electron microscopy has been a transformative technique for structural biologists, but it’s plagued with low-contrast…
High-Performance Electro-Optic Beam Steering with Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Optical Phased Array
Figure 1. (a) Schematic diagram of the thin-film lithium niobate optical waveguide phased array Figure 2. Two-dimensional beam…