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Oct 15, 2026
Scott WapnerHOST
We look very much forward to that.
Scott WapnerHOST
Misha Laskin, the Reflection AI CEO, will join us as well, their new open source model.
Scott WapnerHOST
That's a huge story.
Scott WapnerHOST
The Nobel-winning economist on the future of jobs will join us today, and the tech investor Jeff Richards.
Scott WapnerHOST
Once again, our special report, AI in America, continues this hour.
Scott WapnerHOST
How vulnerable are we to a cyber attack from an AI agent gone rogue? Are we doing enough to prevent one? We'll ask Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora coming up.
Scott WapnerHOST
Plus, AI and the future of work.
Scott WapnerHOST
We're joined today by a Nobel-winning economist making a dire prediction.
Dario AmodeiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
On the current path, I think it is more likely than not that humanity loses control to these AIs and it could end in human extinction.
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The big story all week, all weekend.
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On Saturday morning, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay saying, quote, we must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.
Kate RooneyCORRESPONDENT
CEOs of leading the largest AI companies have been some of the loudest voices.
Jason CalacanisHOST
There are a number of important issues that founders have to make when picking between open source and frontier models.
Jason CalacanisHOST
And so we're going to talk about all that today with Misha Laskin.
Jason CalacanisHOST
He is the co-founder and CEO of Reflection AI.
Jason CalacanisHOST
That's a lab here in the United States, an American company that is building open-weight AI models that companies, governments, organizations can run for themselves.
HackerNoon AINARRATOR
Despite that, Thinking Machines is reported Lai in talks to raise at a fifty billion dollars valuation, five times where it stood in the spring, with NVIDIA now a strategic partner on top of being an investor.
HackerNoon AINARRATOR
Ioannis Antonoglou and Misha Laskin, Reflection AI.
HackerNoon AINARRATOR
The round I described as a rumor actually closed, and closed bigger, two dollars five billion at a twenty-seven dollars five billion valuation, above even the twenty-five billion dollars figure being floated at the time.
HackerNoon AINARRATOR
They've since signed an MOU with the Department of Energy to power the Genesis mission across seventeen national labs and partnered with Dell on an AI factory product, a fast pivot from coding agent startup to national infrastructure vendor.
SamHOST
Let's look closely at the evidence, starting with Reflection AI.
SamHOST
This is a startup founded just two years ago by Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou.
AlexHOST
Brilliant engineers, though.
SamHOST
Sure.
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Reflection AI, the NVIDIA-backed startup from New York, released a preview of its first open weight model, Beam, on Monday.
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Two former Google DeepMind researchers, Misha Laskin and Ionis Antonoglou, founded the company in 2024.
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It has raised about $4.7 billion on the promise that it would build an American alternative to Chinese open models.
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Beam is a mixture of experts model with 501 billion parameters, of which 23 billion are active for each token.
Brian McCulloughHOST
Apparently, several Western openweight models are set to launch this month, including Reflection AI's first model, which will rival top Chinese openweight models, quoting Runtime Wire.
Brian McCulloughHOST
Reflection AI is preparing to release its first public openweight model, a long-awaited test of CEO Misha Laskin's plan to sell companies control over how they build and run AI.
Brian McCulloughHOST
Axios reported on October 4 that the model is expected soon, with capabilities initially below the most advanced U.S. systems but competitive with leading Chinese open-weight models.
Brian McCulloughHOST
Laskin came to reflection from Google DeepMind, where he worked on Gemini and was interested in how reinforcement learning could expand language and multimodal models.