Reflection AI publishes Beam safety results and its Open Safety Framework
Overview
Reflection AI says its first model, Beam, declines 89% of harmful requests and responds to 82% of safety-related harmless requests in its own tests, the highest refusal rate among the Western and Chinese open-weight models it evaluated.
The company published a blog post on how it trained and evaluated Beam for safety, and describes the methodology behind the results as its Open Safety Framework, covering systemic risks, refusal behavior and adversarial robustness.
The tests were built by Reflection under its Iris Safety Evaluations, which check whether Beam's responses follow its safety policy in adversarial and agentic settings across cyber offense, chemical, biological, and radiological/nuclear categories. Reflection says it will release more safety research, evaluations and tools under Project Iris in the coming weeks. These are the company's own results, and no independent evaluation is cited.
Written by AI from the articles below · updated Nov 5, 12:20 PM ET
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- Nov 5, 12:01 PM ET · 1 articleReflection AI describes its Open Safety FrameworkReflection: Reflection AI describes its Open Safety Framework for safe releases
- Nov 5, 12:01 PM ET · 1 articleReflection introduces Iris Safety Evaluations for BeamReflection: Reflection introduces Iris Safety Evaluations to test Beam's safety policy adherence
- Nov 5, 12:01 PM ET · 1 articleReflection AI reports Beam safety evaluation resultsReflection: Reflection AI's Beam declines 89% of harmful requests in safety tests
- Nov 5, 12:01 PM ET · 1 articleReflection AI explains safety training and evaluation for BeamReflection: Reflection AI explains how it trained and evaluated Beam for safety
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Reflection@reflection_aiOfficialReflection AI describes its Open Safety Framework for safe releasesAIReflection AI says it developed the Open Safety Framework, a methodology covering systemic risks, refusal behavior, and adversarial robustness. The company says the framework is meant to ensure safe and responsible releases at scale.
Reflection@reflection_aiOfficialReflection introduces Iris Safety Evaluations to test Beam's safety policy adherenceAIReflection developed the Iris Safety Evaluations (ISE) to test whether Beam's responses align with its safety policy in adversarial and agentic settings. Across cyber offense, chemical, biological, and radiological/nuclear categories, Beam has higher refusal rates than leading Western and Chinese open models, according to the company.

Reflection@reflection_aiOfficialReflection AI's Beam declines 89% of harmful requests in safety testsAIReflection AI reports that Beam declines 89% of harmful requests and responds to 82% of safety-related harmless requests. The company says this is the highest refusal rate among the Western and Chinese open-weight models it tested.

Reflection@reflection_aiOfficialReflection AI explains how it trained and evaluated Beam for safetyAIReflection AI says it has published a blog post on how it trained and evaluated Beam, its first model, for safety. The company says it will release additional safety research, evaluations, and tools under Project Iris, its open AI safety initiative, in the coming weeks.
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