14 Open-Weight Models Replicate Claude's Internal Thinking, Smallest at 270M Parameters

austinc3301 · x · 2026-08-02

Following Anthropic's discovery that Claude can 'think about' a concept without saying it, researchers replicated this in 14 open-weight models. They found this internal state control to be a general property rather than an emergent ability, appearing even in models as small as 270M parameters.

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