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Noam Brown says reasoning-model performance on reasoning benchmarks generally improves as test-time compute increases.
Noam Brown · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“When you plot the performance of these reasoning models with test time compute on the x-axis and performance on basically any reasoning benchmark on the y-axis,”
“you see a very clear pattern where the longer these models take to think about their answer,”
“the better they do.”Play from 0:50Report a misattribution
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