Recurrent Depth Debate: NVIDIA's Deja Vu Nears 1B-Param Performance with 10M Params

ZGojcic · x · 2026-09-03

OpenAI's new model reportedly uses a "recurrent depth" reasoning approach, helping cost and performance but raising concerns that it obscures the model's thinking process and makes monitoring harder.

Researchers connected it to NVIDIA's Deja Vu, which repeats a single 10M-parameter Transformer block K times and approaches VGGT-omega 1B performance. The author argues this feels natural for 3D reconstruction—repeatedly updating correspondence, geometry and consistency—suggesting scaling reconstruction/reasoning is more about recurrent compute depth than parameter count.

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