Reasoning models (models that spend more computational time thinking through problems rather than producing immediate outputs) could reduce AGI development costs if they rely more on inference-time compute than training-time compute, enabling cheaper model advancement
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Gregory SmithEvidence Quote
“reasoning models which are sort of an innovation where you have a model think a lot... if that methodology that method is mostly about having the model run longer rather than training the model longer... if a lot of advantages can come from cheaper methods”
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A New Cold War, Rise of China and Global Chaos: How AI Will Rewrite Geopolitics | Gregory Smith— Decoding Geopolitics Podcast with Dominik PreslCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:20:38 AM
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