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Beam: The Great American Open Model with ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin

aired Oct 09, 2026 · 70.0m
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Summary

When you remove cyber offensive capabilities, you also remove cyber defensive capabilities. The state of the world today is that we have a few hundred safety researchers within closed labs that understand how these things work, and despite their best intentions, it's impossible to cover the long tail of unintended consequences that these systems might have.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, know, it's, including: The state of the world today is that we have a few hundred safety researchers within closed labs that understand how these things work, and despite their best intentions, it's impo.

Key takeaways
  1. 01A very powerful closed model went and hacked into another company, and the only way that company could remediate itself was by using open models to protect itself
  2. 02Reflection provides open-weight models to power the future of intelligence
  3. 03I mean, obviously, you guys have been pioneering really interesting work in open weights and open source models, particularly with the US bent
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