Reflection
Reflection trains its models and supplies APIs, deployment tools and customization software. Beam is its first public open-weight model.
Company & leadership
- Chief executive
- Misha Laskin
- Legal entity
- Reflection AI, Inc.
Founders
- Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou
From reinforcement-learning research to Reflection
The founders worked on reinforcement learning at DeepMind before forming Reflection. Ioannis Antonoglou helped develop AlphaGo and later worked on Gemini post-training. Misha Laskin led reward-model development for Gemini.
Building a model developer and deployment business
Reflection announced $2 billion in funding in August 2025. It named investors including NVIDIA, Sequoia and Lightspeed. Its October 2026 Beam release added public weights, reference integrations and deployment software for developers and organizations.
Research and customer operations
The company lists offices in New York, San Francisco, London and Washington, D.C. It also describes work with Dell on customer-operated deployments and a planned South Korean AI cloud.
Catalog coverage
This profile covers Beam 1.0, the model in Reflection’s current API catalog and public weight collection. BF16, FP8 and NVFP4 packages are formats of the same release. The DFlash2 checkpoint supports speculative decoding and is listed with Beam.