New reasoning models have something interesting and compelling called “chain of thought.” What that means, in a nutshell, is that the engine spits out a line of text attempting to tell the user what ...

If you go to ChatGPT.com, choose the o4-mini model from the drop-down menu and enter a prompt, you’ll see a message you’ve probably never seen before. “Thinking,” the chatbot responds as several ...

The AI world is moving so fast that it’s easy to get lost amid the flurry of shiny new products. OpenAI announces one, then ...

OpenAI published a new paper called "Monitoring Monitorability." It offers methods for detecting red flags in a model's reasoning. Those shouldn't be mistaken for silver bullet solutions, though. In ...

OpenAI o3, the developer's most advanced generative AI reasoning model yet, is here. This new family of models promises strong performance in coding, math, science and visual understanding, the ...

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China Alibaba Group Ltd., has unveiled QVQ-72B-Preview, an experimental open-source artificial intelligence model capable of reviewing images and drawing ...

Apple’s machine-learning group set off a rhetorical firestorm earlier this month with its release of “The Illusion of Thinking,” a 53-page research paper arguing that so-called large reasoning models ...

Anthropic has unveiled Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a notable addition to its lineup of large language models (LLMs), building on the foundation of Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Marketed as the first hybrid reasoning ...

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Are ‘Reasoning’ Models Really Smarter Than Other LLMs? Apple Says No Your email has been sent Generative AI models with “reasoning” may not actually excel at solving certain types of problems when ...

What if your next email assistant could not only summarize your inbox but also reason through your schedule conflicts, all without needing an internet connection? Microsoft’s latest leap in artificial ...