How did *thinking* reasoning LLM's go from a github experiment 4 months ago, to every major company offering super advanced thinking models only 4 months later, that can iterate code, internally plan code, it seems a bit fast? Was it already developed by major companies, but unreleased? : MLQuestions

How did thinking reasoning LLM's go from a github experiment 4 months ago, to every major company offering super advanced thinking models only 4 months later, that can iterate code, internally plan code, it seems a bit fast? Was it already developed by major companies, but unreleased? : MLQuestions

It was like a revelation when chain-of-thought AI became viral news as a GitHub project that supposedly competed with SOTA's with only 2 developers and some nifty prompting...
Did all the companies just jump on the bandwagon an weave it into GPT/ Gemini / Claude in a hurry?
Did those companies already have e.g. Gemini 2.5 PRO thinking in development 4 months ago and we didn't know?

https://old.reddit.com/r/MLQuestions/comments/1kmg8ne/how_did_thinking_reasoning_llms_go_from_a_github/

June 10, 2025 at 2:49:19 PM EDT *

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