Guest calls Reflection the strongest open-model prospect so far, but not a return to the frontier

Asked when an American open-weight model might arrive that would genuinely excite users, one guest called Reflection the best shot so far. He described it as being at the frontier of open models and said it appeared relatively parameter-efficient, while emphasizing that it was not at the level of leading closed models.

The launch did not feel like “we’re so back,” he said: about a month later, Kimi 3.1 already looked like a frontier model. The guest gave no timeline for the next model and did not confirm rumors of in-house development; those rumors were raised only in the host’s question.