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Make intelligence open and accessible to all.

Reflection AI is building open frontier models, releasing open weights, publishing the research behind them, and open-sourcing the tools to customize and build with them. Founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, including a core developer of AlphaGo, the company is positioning itself as America’s open frontier AI lab.

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Founders
Misha Laskin

Misha Laskin

Co-founder

Former Google DeepMind researcher, working on reinforcement learning and large-scale model training before starting Reflection.

Ioannis Antonoglou

Ioannis Antonoglou

Co-founder

Former Google DeepMind researcher and a core developer behind AlphaGo.

$2BRaised at an $8B valuation
2024Founded
Nvidia& SpaceX among strategic backers
3Sovereign & enterprise partnerships
01 · The opportunity

Open frontier AI, already landing sovereign and enterprise deals.

Reflection is building the open alternative to closed frontier labs, model weights, research, and tooling all released openly. That openness is already translating into large, strategic commercial and government partnerships.

The thesis

Open beats closed

Open systems evolve faster, attract broader participation, and are safer, since more researchers can inspect and improve them.

The partnerships

Dell, the DOE, and Shinsegae

Delivering AI factories for enterprises with Dell, powering U.S. national labs under the Genesis Mission, and building Korea’s sovereign AI cloud with Shinsegae.

The scale

From $545M to $8B in a year

Emerged from stealth in March 2025; raised $2B at an $8B valuation by October 2025, with a further raise reportedly in motion.

02 · Backed by

Backed by top-tier investors.

$2B raised at an $8B valuation, with Nvidia and SpaceX among the strategic backers and compute partners.

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Sell the case for open intelligence.

A frontier AI lab going from stealth to an $8B+ valuation in under a year, already landing sovereign and enterprise partnerships with Dell, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Shinsegae.