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\"Made in USA\" AI model Beam unveiled, targets China\'s open models

U.S. AI startup Reflection AI has unveiled its first large open-weight model, Beam, positioning it as an American-made alternative to China’s open AI systems. Beam is a text-only model designed for coding, reasoning and AI agent tasks and can be downloaded to run on developers’ own hardware. The company said Beam has 501 billion parameters, with 23 billion activated at a time, and is undergoing final safety tests.

AI & Enterprise

Google to send four AI chips into space, first \'space data centre\' test set for Oct. 1

Google will launch a low-Earth orbit satellite on Oct. 1 carrying four Tensor Processing Units as the first orbital test under Project Suncatcher, aimed at building AI data centres in space. The company will test whether the chips can withstand launch forces, radiation and cooling limits in vacuum conditions. The satellite will run on about 1 kilowatt of solar power, operate for about a year and remain in orbit for up to six years.

Industry

Russia challenges chip equipment with technology to cut wafer exposure from two weeks to five minutes

A Russian startup has unveiled multi-cathode electron-beam lithography technology that uses multiple electron beams at once to speed up semiconductor exposure. Developers said a silicon wafer could be exposed in about 5 to 7 minutes, compared with 1 to 2 weeks using a single beam. They said they have verified operation of a multi-cathode electron source, not a complete tool. Experts said industrial use would require further development, stable control and funding.