Overview

• Nvidia invested about $800 million in the Series B, alongside Sequoia, Lightspeed, GIC, DST, Disruptive, 1789, B Capital, CRV, Citi, Eric Yuan and Eric Schmidt.
• Reflection plans to publish model weights for public use while keeping datasets and full training pipelines proprietary to sell enterprise and sovereign AI solutions.
• The company says it has secured a compute cluster and aims to train a frontier LLM on tens of trillions of tokens, with the first release planned for next year.
• CEO Misha Laskin positions Reflection as a U.S. answer to Chinese open-weight leaders such as DeepSeek and stresses data provenance to win enterprise and government trust.
• The startup, founded by ex-DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, has a team of about 60 drawn from DeepMind and OpenAI, and its valuation rose roughly 15x from $545 million seven months ago.