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Ben Turner

Cutting-edge AI models from OpenAI and DeepSeek undergo 'complete collapse' when problems get too difficult, study reveals

A floating virtual brain surrounded by question marks.

Artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning models aren't as smart as they've been made out to be. In fact, they undergo total collapse when tasks get too complex, researchers at Apple say.

Reasoning models, such as Meta's Claude, OpenAI's o3 and DeepSeek's R1, are specialized large language models (LLMs) that dedicate more time and computing power to produce more accurate responses than their traditional predecessors.

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