DeepSeek and MiniMax Show Strikingly Similar Chain-of-Thought Styles, Sparking Distillation Talk
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-20
User teortaxes posted side-by-side screenshots: when asked questions like "When was Ceres discovered?" and "Who won the first Fields Medal in 1936?", both DeepSeek V4 Flash and MiniMax-M3.1-Flash produced Deep reasoning chains opening with a nearly identical "We need answer..." pattern, checking items one by one before converging on an answer. The post's sarcastic caption—"Amazing convergence in CoT styles! I wonder how that happens!"—hints that the two models' highly similar reasoning chains may stem from distillation from a common source. This is an unverified observation only.
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