Reflection AI raises $2B to be America's open frontier AI lab
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- Reflection AI, founded by ex-Google DeepMind researchers, raised $2B at an $8B valuation.
- Originally focused on autonomous coding, now positioning as an open-source alternative to closed AI labs.
- Founded by Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, known for their work on Gemini and AlphaGo.
- Recruited top talent from DeepMind and OpenAI, built an advanced AI training stack.
- Plans to release a frontier language model next year trained on tens of trillions of tokens.
- Uses Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, previously only scalable by large, closed AI labs.
- Aims to compete with Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek and Qwen to set global AI standards.
- Business model focuses on enterprises and governments for revenue, offering open model weights.
- Investors include Nvidia, Sequoia, Lightspeed, and others.