CoT co-author jokes he now pays for reasoning tokens he helped invent
denny_zhou · x · 2026-09-08
Denny Zhou, who helped introduce chain-of-thought reasoning to LLMs, jokes that he and his kids now have to pay for reasoning tokens — a wry take on how a freely published research technique became a billed feature of today's reasoning models.
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