Reflection AI's Beam-1.0-501B-A23B lands in Agent Arena top 15

Exciting news: Beam-1.0-501B-A23B by @Reflection_AI just landed #12 among open weight models in Agent Arena with -3.67% Net Improvement, and #22 among open in Code Arena: WebDev with 1438 pts. It’s also fully open under Apache 2.0. On the Agent Arena leaderboard, Beam 1.0 is the top-ranked US model among open models, landing at #12. That puts it ahead of Hy3, MiMo V2.5 Pro and MiniMax M3. Its margin of error is wide (±3.84% on Net Improvement), so it’s statistically closer to the two Qwen3.8 models just above it than its rank suggests. On Code Arena: WebDev, 24 of the top 25 open models come from Chinese labs. The one exception is Reflection’s Beam 1.0 (Apache 2.0). It ranks #22 among open models, which makes it the top US open model on the board, just ahead of Kimi K2.5 Thinking and GLM-5. Congrats to the @Reflection_AI team on this solid open weights release!