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type: entity
entity_type: company
name: Reflection AI
domain: ai-alignment
status: active
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# Reflection AI

**Type:** AI company (open-weight models)
**Status:** Active
**Founded:** Pre-2026 (exact date unknown)

## Overview

Reflection AI is an AI company offering open-weight models, described by defense analysts as "a deliberately American answer to DeepSeek." The company provides models with public weights, no centralized deployment control, and no centralized alignment governance.

## Architecture

- **Model type:** Open-weight
- **Weights:** Public
- **Deployment:** Uncontrolled (any actor can run independently)
- **Alignment governance:** None (no centralized oversight)

## Timeline

- **2026-05-01** — Received Pentagon IL6/IL7 classified network AI agreement, becoming the first open-weight model provider endorsed for highly restricted classified environments

## Significance

Reflection AI's Pentagon endorsement represents implicit DoD support for open-weight architectures in national security applications, despite the absence of centralized alignment governance. The company's inclusion in IL6/IL7 agreements alongside major tech incumbents suggests the Pentagon views open-weight models as appropriate for highly restricted classified networks.

## Sources

- DoD Press Release, May 1, 2026
- Breaking Defense coverage of Pentagon IL6/IL7 agreements
- DefenseScoop analysis