Long thinking describes the behavior in which a model spreads its internal reasoning across hundreds or thousands of tokens before producing its final answer. It is the core mechanism of the paradigm introduced by OpenAI o1 and the practical face of Test-time Compute. It directly explains why Reasoning Models outperform their predecessors on hard tasks. Because it adds latency, product designers manage it with explicit thinking UI states visible to users.
MEVZU N°124ISTANBULYEAR I — VOL. III
Glossary · Intermediate · 2024
Long Thinking
When a model performs extensive internal reasoning across many tokens before producing its final answer.
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