Chain-of-Thought

TL;DR for operators A smart agent can still be a bad decision-maker. That is the useful, slightly annoying lesson from LLMs are Greedy Agents: Effects of RL Fine-tuning on Decision-Making Abilities.1 The paper studies Gemma2 models acting in simple decision environments and finds that they often fail not because they cannot describe the right strategy, but because they do not reliably execute it. ...

TL;DR for operators AI reasoning is becoming an operating cost, not just a research curiosity. When a model “thinks step by step,” every intermediate token has to be generated, paid for, waited on, logged, and sometimes hidden from the user because nobody wants a customer support bot narrating its algebra like a nervous intern. ...

An open-source reasoning model achieving state-of-the-art performance in math, code, and logic tasks.