Efficiency Gains Eaten by Deeper Reasoning
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-07-11
This reply argues that what appears to be a decline in efficiency is actually the result of efficiency gains being reinvested into deeper reasoning, longer task trajectories, and stronger Agentic behaviors.
- The underlying models might have become more efficient.
- However, due to expanded inference budgets, the total compute consumption per task could still continue to rise.
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