This Week in Startups

This Week in Startups

The Ex-DeepMind Researcher Taking On China’s Open Source AI

Oct 14, 2026 · 1h 0m

✨ AI Summary

Misha Laskin discusses enterprises moving away from renting AI.
Reflection AI launches Beam, an open-weight model, quickly.
Beam aims to compete with top Chinese open-source AI models.

Guests on This Episode

Co-founder of Reflection AI · 4 podcast appearances

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