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Reflection Releases Beam, a 501B Open-Weight Model for Coding and Agents

Apache 2.0 weights for Reflection’s first open model are live on Hugging Face; Artificial Analysis scores Beam 30 on its Intelligence Index, second among U.S. open-weight models this week.

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NEURA Robotics Introduces Neuron AI for Multimodal Physical AI

On October 14, 2026, NEURA Robotics unveiled Neuron AI, a Perception-Language-Action foundation model that fuses 3D vision, touch, audio, robot state, and language with memory so robots can act on more than cameras alone.

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