Reflection AI Raises $2 Billion to Become a Pioneer of Open-Source AI in the U.S., Challenging DeepSeek
The startup Reflection AI, founded just one year ago, has completed a $2 billion funding round, valuing the company at $8 billion, which is 15 times higher than seven months ago. The company was founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, and it has shifted from autonomous coding agents to open-source AI development, aiming to challenge closed labs like OpenAI and act as a Western counterpart to the Chinese AI company DeepSeek.