Reflection AI to release US open-weight model to rival DeepSeek and Qwen

Axios reports that Reflection AI is about to release a US open-weight model aimed at competing with Chinese open models DeepSeek and Qwen. Community discussion hopes it stays under 200B parameters for memory-constrained users and expects more Western open models to follow.

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