Reasoning models News and Analysis

2 verified stories covering Reasoning models, product updates and industry developments.

AI research 2026-07-16

MIT tests AI reasoning with 121 unfamiliar games

A Nature study from MIT, Cambridge, Princeton and collaborators suggests humans reason about new games with fast, shallow, goal-directed simulation rather than deep search.

#Reasoning models #Cognitive science

OpenAI 2026-05-21

OpenAI model cracks an 80-year Erdős geometry problem

An internal general reasoning model found an algebraic-number-theory construction that external mathematicians said is journal-worthy.

#AI mathematics #Reasoning models #AI for science