Reflection AI
Ex-DeepMind startup building Asimov, a code-comprehension agent that reads code and team context to answer engineering questions.
Overview
Reflection AI is a commercial AI company founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou (a co-creator of AlphaGo), developing open foundation models and software agents. Its first product, Asimov, is a code-comprehension agent that reads source code plus emails, Slack, docs, and project updates to answer how software systems are built. The company scaled rapidly, raising $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation in October 2025 with investors reported to include Nvidia and Sequoia.
Pricing
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- Sign-up via the Asimov waitlist
- Not generally available as of early 2026
- Researchers reportedly able to use the model at no cost
- No published self-serve pricing
- Per-user pricing, not usage-based
- Self-hosted appliance in the customer's own VPC (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Inference runs inside the customer's cloud account
- Typical initial deployments of 5-20 engineers
ASEAN Perspective
Reflection AI in Southeast Asia
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What this is for: Helping engineering teams understand large codebases via an agent that reads code alongside internal context like docs and chat.
Who this is for: Engineering organizations that need fast comprehension of complex, sprawling software systems.
Availability: Commercial; access via Reflection AI. Backed by a $2B raise at an $8B valuation (Oct 2025).
What people say
Reflection AI has no meaningful product-review footprint — no G2 listing, no app-store rating — because its flagship, the Asimov code-comprehension agent, is still gated behind a waitlist and its frontier open-weight model remains unreleased. The signal that exists is financial and reputational: founders Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou (an AlphaGo co-creator) out of Google DeepMind, and a headline $2B raise at an $8B valuation in October 2025, with investors reported to include Nvidia and Sequoia, later reporting pushing the valuation higher.
The dominant sentiment among analysts is skepticism about that valuation-to-shipping gap. Multiple write-ups frame it bluntly — "the $20B startup that has yet to ship" — noting that as of early 2026 Asimov is still waitlisted, the open model isn't public, and the site has product docs but no research papers. Coverage describes a "classic S-curve trap": the market is pricing steep future growth, and the company faces a hard credibility test to justify each round with real product milestones.
Honest read: a heavily-funded team with elite pedigree and a plausible thesis (code comprehension across code plus Slack/docs/email), but essentially unproven by users — buy the team and the story, because there's little shipped product to judge.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
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