How did Reflection Beam do on X?
Reflection posted the Beam launch from @reflection_ai on Oct 16, 2026. The post has 529,896 views, 962 likes, 200 reposts, 208 quotes and 159 replies, an engagement rate of 0.29%. It ranks #851 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.
Beam is now available across platforms, with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license - in collaboration with an ecosystem of 40+ partners. We're releasing: - Weights, tokenizer, and reference implementation - BF16, FP8 and NVFP4 weights and a DFlash2 drafter - The open source harness we built and trained Beam on: Mirror CLI Weights and model card on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/reflection
- 3.0xthe median launch175K median views
- #851of the launches we trackout of 2839
- 19xits own following28,012 followers
- Views
- 529.9K
- Likes
- 962
- Reposts
- 200
- Quotes
- 208
- Replies
- 159
- Bookmarks
- 265
What would these views cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 529.9K views would cost $53K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 1.9x what this post got, for about $25K.
The post reached about 19 views for every follower of @reflection_ai.
What launched?
Reflection released Beam across platforms with open weights under Apache 2.0, including tokenizer, reference implementation and BF16, FP8 and NVFP4 weights.
How does it compare with other launches?
Reflection Beam has more views than 70% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 3.0x the median launch's 175K views.
- Reflection Beam529.9K
- Median tracked launch175K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | Reflection Beam | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 529.9K | 175K |
| Engagement rate | 0.29% | 0.48% |
| Views per follower | 19 | 2.8 |
| Quote posts | 208 | 27 |
| Saves per 10K views | 5.0 | 14.2 |
Against launches like it
A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI launches | 1,462 | 263K | 2.0x | #541 |
| Accounts 10K to 100K followers | 1,135 | 99.4K | 5.3x | #252 |
| Image launch posts | 620 | 143.1K | 3.7x | #164 |
| Every launch | 2,839 | 175K | 3.0x | #851 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 28K followers, the post reached 19 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 10K to 100K followers reach a median of 3.1 times their following, so this one went about 6.1 times further than usual for its size. It ranks 252 of 1135 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 208 quote posts, 3.9 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. More people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.
The first line is "Beam is now available across platforms, with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license - in collaboration with an ecosystem of 40+ partners.". The post runs 61 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with an image: image launches have a median of 143.1K views, against 186.1K for the rest.
There is a link in the post. Launch posts with a link have a median of 160.8K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Friday (UTC). Friday launches have a median of 162.2K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.
Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.
Questions about this launch
- What is Reflection?
- In its own words on X: "Make intelligence open and accessible to all" Reflection posted the Beam launch from @reflection_ai on Oct 16, 2026.
- How many views did Reflection Beam get on X?
- 529,896 views. Reflection posted it from @reflection_ai on Oct 16, 2026, and the post has 962 likes, 200 reposts, 208 quotes, 159 replies and 265 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was Reflection Beam a big launch on X?
- It ranks #851 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 70% of them and 3.0x the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.29%, against a median of 0.48%.
- What would 529.9K views on X cost to buy?
- At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 529.9K views would cost $53K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 1.9x what this post got, for about $25K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/reflection-beam, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.