news Scmp World 2026-10-06

Nvidia-backed Reflection AI launches new model to challenge Chinese AI dominance

US startup Reflection AI has released 'Beam,' an efficient open-weight model designed to compete with major Chinese AI systems in coding and reasoning tasks.

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