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Brown: Reasoning models improve primarily through compute efficiency rather than longer thinking duration
“These models are becoming more efficient in the way they're thinking, as they're able to do more with the same amount of test time compute, and I think that's a very underappreciated point, that it's not just that we're getting these models to think for longer…”
Noam Brown Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 1:08:26 Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
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Friedman: AlphaCodium boosts OpenAI o1, proving o1 lacks true System 2
“We took their all one preview with Alpha Codium and did better. Like it just shows like, and there is a big difference between the preview and the IOI. It shows, like, that these models are not still system two thinkers, and there's a big difference.”
Itamar Friedman Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 42:48 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
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