AI Glossary term

Reasoning Model

A model trained to spend extra compute working through a problem internally before answering.

Also called: thinking model, extended thinking

A model trained to spend extra compute working through a problem internally before answering.

Why it mattersWorth the extra seconds and cost on hard problems. Overkill for summarising an email.

See also Chain of Thought, Latency

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