Beam: The Great American Open Model with ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin

Misha Laskin, co-founder and CEO of ReflectionAI, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the launch of Beam, a 500 billion parameter open-weight reasoning model. The conversation covers the technical challenges of building an open model, Beam's reasoning efficiency, and the shift in enterprise from renting to owning AI. They explore why open models may capture the majority of global token demand, the competitive dynamics of China's open model ecosystem, safety considerations for open models, and the potential for frontier-level open models to accelerate scientific discovery.