Interconnects

Thinking, Searching, and Acting

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Sep 22, 2025
Explore the evolution of reasoning models and how they've outgrown the limitations of early AI like ChatGPT. Delve into the three core primitives: thinking, searching, and acting, each pivotal for future advancements. Uncover the nuances of hallucinations framed as context problems and the ongoing debate between open and closed tool ecosystems. Nathan highlights the impact of tokenomics and hardware trends on AI efficiency, emphasizing that these innovations are set to revolutionize our interaction with technology.
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Three Primitives Of Reasoning Models

  • Modern reasoning models rest on three lasting primitives: thinking, searching, and acting.
  • These primitives combine inference traces, external retrieval, and real-world/tool execution to make models useful.
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Thoughts Differ From Human Chain Of Thought

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Search Reframes Hallucinations

  • Searching supplies current, external information that fixed model weights lack.
  • This turns hallucinations into context-missing issues rather than purely wrong content.
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