Reflection AI
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| Type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
| Founded | 2024 |
| Founders | Misha Laskin Ioannis Antonoglou |
| Headquarters | Brooklyn, New York[1] |
| Products | Asimov[2] |
| Website | reflection |
Reflection AI is an American artificial intelligence company that develops open foundation models and software agents for AI-assisted software development. Founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, the company initially focused on tools that automate software development.[3]
The company has positioned itself as an open-source artificial intelligence company and as an open-model alternative to closed frontier AI labs. In 2025, TechCrunch reported that Reflection planned to release model weights for public use while generating revenue from enterprise customers and governments using its models.[4]
Technology
[edit]Reflection's work combines large language model training, reinforcement learning, agentic AI, and software engineering automation. The company says it is developing open foundation models and advancing both pre-training and post-training systems, with an emphasis on reinforcement learning at scale.[5]
In October 2025, Reflection said it had built a large-scale large language model and reinforcement learning platform capable of training mixture of experts models at frontier scale, first applying the approach to autonomous coding and later expanding it toward general agentic reasoning.[6]
Reflection's first product was Asimov, a code-comprehension agent for engineering teams. Wired reported in July 2025 that Asimov reads source code, emails, Slack messages, project updates and documentation to answer questions about how software systems are built.[7]
Funding and partnerships
[edit]In March 2025, Reflection emerged from stealth with $130 million in financing, including a $25 million seed round and a $105 million Series A round. The financing valued the company at about $545 million.[8]
In October 2025, Reflection raised $2 billion in a funding round that valued the company at $8 billion. Investors in the round included Nvidia, Eric Schmidt, Citigroup, 1789 Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital.[9]
In May 2026, Axios reported that Reflection was partnering with the United States Department of Energy to support the Genesis Mission, a federal scientific research initiative, and would serve as the AI model provider for the U.S. National Laboratories.[10]
In June 2026, Axios reported that Reflection had signed a compute agreement with SpaceXAI for access to chips and hardware from the SpaceX Colossus data center. Under the agreement, Reflection would pay $150 million per month starting July 1, 2026, through 2029, after an initial ramp period.[11]
See also
[edit]- AI-assisted software development
- List of AI-assisted software development tools
- List of AI software developed at universities
- List of artificial intelligence companies
- List of chatbots
- List of large language models
- List of open-source artificial intelligence software
- List of university artificial intelligence research centers
References
[edit]- ↑ "Reflection". World Economic Forum. Retrieved June 25, 2026.
- ↑ Zhan, Stephanie; Curnin, Charlie (July 16, 2025). "Reflection AI Launches Asimov: Breakthrough Agent for Code Comprehension". Sequoia Capital. Retrieved June 22, 2026.
- ↑ "Nvidia-backed Reflection AI raises $2 billion in funding, boosts valuation to $8 billion". Reuters. October 9, 2025. Retrieved June 22, 2026.
- ↑ Bellan, Rebecca (October 9, 2025). "Reflection AI raises $2B to be America's open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek". TechCrunch. Retrieved June 22, 2026.
- ↑ "Research". Reflection AI. Retrieved June 22, 2026.
- ↑ "Building Frontier Open Intelligence Accessible to All". Reflection AI. October 9, 2025. Retrieved June 22, 2026.
- ↑ Knight, Will (July 16, 2025). "Former Top Google Researchers Have Made a New Kind of AI Agent". Wired. Retrieved June 22, 2026.
- ↑ Wiggers, Kyle (March 7, 2025). "Ex-DeepMind researchers' new startup aims for superintelligence". Bloomberg News. Retrieved June 22, 2026.
- ↑ "Nvidia-backed Reflection AI raises $2 billion, boosts valuation to $8 billion". Reuters. October 9, 2025. Retrieved June 22, 2026.
- ↑ Gold, Ashley (May 22, 2026). "Exclusive: Reflection AI to power Genesis Mission". Axios. Retrieved June 22, 2026.
- ↑ Mills, Madison (June 22, 2026). "Open-source AI gets more compute from SpaceX". Axios. Retrieved June 22, 2026.
