How to build custom reasoning agents with a fraction of the compute

The technique, called Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards with Self-Distillation (RLSD), combines the reliable ...

“Cognitive surrender” leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful human oversight and review to detect reasoning or factual flaws in responses. On the other side are ...
Forbes

AI Models Still Struggle With Reasoning — And Here’s Why

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI. What looks like intelligence in AI models may just be memorization. A closer look at benchmarks ...
Forbes

On Whether Generative AI And Large Language Models Are Better At Inductive Reasoning Or Deductive Reasoning And What This Foretells About The Future Of AI

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I continue my ongoing analysis of the ...
VentureBeat

Microsoft built Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B to know when to think — and when thinking is a waste of time

Microsoft on Tuesday released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a compact open-weight multimodal AI model that the company says matches or exceeds the performance of systems many times its size — while ...
TechCrunch

Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model

Google has released what it’s calling a new “reasoning” AI model — but it’s in the experimental stages, and from our brief testing, there’s certainly room for improvement. The new model, called Gemini ...
Geeky Gadgets

Why Qwen 3 Max Thinking May Not Be the Upgrade You Expected

Is it possible for artificial intelligence to truly “think” better than before? With the release of Qwen 3 Max Thinking, Quinn has made a bold claim: this model represents a leap forward in reasoning, ...
MacRumors

Apple Research Questions AI Reasoning Models Just Days Before WWDC

A newly published Apple Machine Learning Research study has challenged the prevailing narrative around AI "reasoning" large-language models like OpenAI's o1 and Claude's thinking variants, revealing ...
TechCrunch

‘Reasoning’ AI models have become a trend, for better or worse

Call it a reasoning renaissance. In the wake of the release of OpenAI’s o1, a so-called reasoning model, there’s been an explosion of reasoning models from rival AI labs. In early November, DeepSeek, ...
TechRepublic

Are ‘Reasoning’ Models Really Smarter Than Other LLMs? Apple Says No

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking and DeepSeek R1 ‘overthought’ some puzzles, pursuing incorrect answers. Generative AI models with “reasoning” may not actually excel at solving certain types of problems ...
TechRepublic

Innovations in AI Reasoning Models Will Slow Within 1 Year, Warns Analyst

Innovations in AI Reasoning Models Will Slow Within 1 Year, Warns Analyst Your email has been sent Advancements in AI reasoning models are expected to slow down within a year as scaling limits ...