How Reflection launched Beam on X
2.5M views, ranked 358 of the 1981 launches we track. Reach and saves both sit close to where the rest of this list sits.
Introducing Beam: a highly efficient agentic open model with 501B total parameters and 23B active. - Frontier reasoning efficiency - Advances the Western open frontier on coding & agentic tasks - Trained end-to-end from scratch Full weights release this month. Learn more about
How it compares
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| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product release the same kind of announcement | 954 | 692K | 3.6x | 170 |
| 25K to 100K followers accounts of a similar size | 264 | 963K | 2.6x | 58 |
| Every launch all of them, for scale | 1981 | 688K | 3.6x | 358 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 26K followers, this reached 94.6 times the account's own following. Accounts in the same band, 25K to 100K followers, reach a median of 20.9 times their following, so this travelled about 4.5 times further than usual for its size.
It ranks 58 of 264 launches from accounts that size. Against every launch in the directory it sits at 3.6 times the median of 688K views.
Quote posts led, 755 of them at 3 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.3.
People were adding their own take, which is how a launch gets argued about and carried into audiences the account does not have. Bookmarks: 3K. Reposts: 1K.
The first line is “Introducing Beam: a highly efficient agentic open model with 501B total parameters and 23B active”, the same first word as 25% of launches in the directory.
It carries an image and no video. 92% of launches in the directory carry a video, so this is the rarer choice, and the few image launches that travelled did it on the strength of the image.
The copy runs 44 words, about the usual length for a launch post here, where the median is 41. The body carries a link, so the post had somewhere to send the reader and paid a little reach for it.
It went out on a Monday. Launches posted on a Monday have a median of 618K views in the directory, and Friday is the strongest day at 880K.
Giving people something to reply to covers this: the conversation is what carried this one. For the next one, read whether a launch needs a video: 99% of the launches in the directory carry one, and the guide is about when the 1% is the right call.
What viral AI launches share is the guide for it: model launches are the largest category in the directory and travel on the demo. This launch sits in the Developer Tool and Frontier Lab directories.
Questions about this launch
When did Reflection launch Beam?
Reflection posted the launch on X on 5 October 2026.
How many views did the Beam launch post get?
2,502,321 views at the last read, ranked 358 of the 1981 AI launches Doomers tracks, 95 times the account's following.
Who posted the Beam launch?
@reflection_ai, which has 26K followers.
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