Glossary
Reasoning model
A model trained to work through a problem step by step, generating intermediate 'thinking' tokens, before answering.
Reasoning models score higher on maths, code and planning at the cost of more output tokens and latency. Many vendors expose a reasoning budget or effort setting.
Related terms
Active parametersAPIAttentionCost per taskGPU
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