Misha Laskin
Co-founder and CEO, Reflection AI · as of 2026-10-05 · source
Ex-DeepMind researcher who leads Reflection AI, the best-funded US lab dedicated to open-weight frontier models.
Former Google DeepMind researcher; co-founded Reflection AI with Ioannis Antonoglou in 2024 (TechCrunch, The Next Web).
News mentioning Misha Laskin (2)
- Reflection AI unveils Beam, a 501B-parameter (23B active) Apache-2.0 open-weight MoE; weights due later in October ★★★★
On Oct 5, 2026 Reflection AI announced Beam, its first model: a sparse Mixture-of-Experts with 501B total and 23B active parameters, trained on 23.8T tokens, for coding, reasoning and agentic work. It will be released under Apache 2.0 with weights and a tech report "later in October"; for now it…
- Axios: Nvidia-backed Reflection AI is about to release its first open-weight model, with other Western open-weight models due in October ★★★
On Oct 4, 2026 Axios reported, citing people familiar with the plans, that Reflection AI (founded 2024 by ex-DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, backed by Nvidia) is preparing to release its first open-weight model "soon", and that other Western open-weight models will launch…
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