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From late 2024, a new breed of models appeared — 'o1,' 'R1' — that visibly pause before answering, far longer than older models.

What are these 'reasoning models' doing during that pause?

Internally generating a long chain of reasoning before answering
Reasoning models generate extended internal 'thinking tokens' before responding. Opening a new scaling axis — 'think longer, get more accurate' — was the biggest shift in AI through 2024–25.
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