Seems like Reflection 70b was an attempt to implement the same concept on top of Llama 3 70b

Reflection was literally a scam

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41484981

Could even be that Reflection 70b got hyped, and they were like "wow we need to do something about that, maybe we can release the same if we quickly hack something"...

Pushing an hypothetical (and likely false, but not impossible) conspiracy theory much further:

in theory, they had access in their backend logs to the prompts that Reflection 70b were doing while calling GPT-4o (as it apparently was actually calling both Anthropic and OpenAI API instead of LLaMA), and had an opportunity to get "inspired".

Reflection was hyped because strawberry was already leaked

Then pretend you created a new model, when actually it's just a loop with a prompt.