3 articles on Emergent Wire tagged "reasoning models."
3 articles
Chain-of-thought prompting used to be the trick that unlocked better answers. With reasoning models doing that step internally now, here's whether asking one to 'think step by step' still does anything.
AI models have gotten dramatically better at math, but the specific ways they still fail reveal a lot about how they actually process numbers.
Reasoning models spend extra computing time working through a problem step by step before answering, which changes both what they get right and how much they cost.
