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Reasoning models

Peak · emerged September 2024 · high May 2026 · -11% on the month before · 173 mentions on Trending in 14 days

Models trained with reinforcement learning to think step by step, spending more compute at answer time. Named by OpenAI: Learning to Reason with LLMs (OpenAI o1) (Sep 12, 2024). Also called Reasoning model, Thinking models, Test-time compute, Inference-time scaling, Long chain of thought.

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Signals

DeclineHacker News stories, last 12 months60 stories, -70% on the 12 months before
AdoptionarXiv papers, last 12 months2,462 papers, +40% on the 12 months before
AdoptionWikipedia views, October 20267,376, +40% on a year beforeAdoptionProduct releases naming it18 since Feb 19, 2026AdoptionGitHub repositories1,571
SignalReads as
Hacker News stories, last 12 months60 stories, -70% on the 12 months beforeDecline
arXiv papers, last 12 months2,462 papers, +40% on the 12 months beforeAdoption
Wikipedia views, October 20267,376, +40% on a year beforeAdoption
Product releases naming it18 since Feb 19, 2026Adoption
GitHub repositories1,571Adoption

Trending terms

TermPeak
DeepSeekThe Chinese lab and its open-weight DeepSeek models.16 days, last Nov 8 yesterday29

Companies

Releases

18 releases since Feb 19, 2026
Name
Elorian AI's Glimpse now available on AI GatewayVercel · Oct 16, 2026 3 weeks ago
Reflection AI's Beam now available on AI Gateway for freeVercel · Oct 16, 2026 3 weeks ago
GLM-5.3 now available in AIP through Amazon BedrockPalantir · Oct 15, 2026 3 weeks ago
Cat Jam is now available in stealth for free on AI GatewayVercel · Oct 15, 2026 3 weeks ago
Muse Spark Open now available on AI GatewayVercel · Oct 15, 2026 3 weeks ago
Ember-1 from Fireworks now available on AI GatewayVercel · Sep 27, 2026 6 weeks ago
Use xAI Grok 4.7 in OCI Generative AIOracle · Sep 25, 2026 6 weeks ago
Muse Spark 1.3 from MetaGoogle Cloud · Sep 24, 2026 6 weeks ago

Models

Papers

Name
When2Think: Learning Difficulty-Aware Length Control for Efficient Hybrid Reasoning ModelsMicrosoft · Sep 17, 2026 7 weeks ago
Building Multilingual Bridges: Data Mixing as the Pillar of Generalization for In-Language ReasoningCohere · Sep 9, 2026 2 months ago
CALIBER: Calibrating Confidence Before and After Reasoning in Language ModelsCohere · Jun 23, 2026 4 months ago
MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-world DeploymentAi2 · May 4, 2026 6 months ago
Therefore I am. I ThinkServiceNow · Apr 2, 2026 7 months ago
Reasoning Models Struggle to Control their Chains of ThoughtOpenAI · Mar 5, 2026 8 months ago
Recurrent-Depth VLA: Implicit Test-Time Compute Scaling of Vision-Language-Action Models via Latent Iterative ReasoningAi2 · Feb 8, 2026 9 months ago
Nemotron-Cascade: Scaling Cascaded Reinforcement Learning for General-Purpose Reasoning ModelsNVIDIA · Dec 15, 2025 10 months ago

GitHub projects

1,571 repositories
NameStars
sapientinc/HRMHierarchical Reasoning Model Official Release · Jul 9, 2025 1 year ago12,664
MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-M1MiniMax-M1, the world's first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model. · Jun 14, 2025 1 year ago3,186
TsinghuaC3I/Awesome-RL-for-LRMsA Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Large Reasoning Models · Mar 20, 2025 1 year ago2,497
open-thoughts/open-thoughtsFully open data curation for reasoning models · Jan 27, 2025 1 year ago2,352
ATH-MaaS/Marco-o1An Open Large Reasoning Model for Real-World Solutions · Oct 22, 2024 2 years ago1,538
RUC-NLPIR/WebThinker[NeurIPS 2025] 🌐 WebThinker: Empowering Large Reasoning Models with Deep Research Capability · Mar 28, 2025 1 year ago1,471

Partnerships

Name
Elastic and OpenAI: OpenAI models with ElasticsearchJul 30, 2026 3 months ago
MovementStage
Synthetic dataTraining and evaluation data generated by models or simulators instead of collected from people.Plateau
AI agentsModels that plan and act in steps, calling tools and other services until a task is done.Rising
Mixture of expertsModels split into many expert blocks with only a few active per token, so they grow in size without growing in cost.Peak

History

ChangeOct 2, 2026Stage changed from plateau to peak
ChangeSep 24, 2026Tracking started: emerged September 2024, plateau, 5 other names recorded
DateWhat changed
Oct 2, 2026Stage changed from plateau to peak
Sep 24, 2026Tracking started: emerged September 2024, plateau, 5 other names recorded

Sources: Curve: Hacker News story titles, Wikipedia pageviews and arXiv papers by month, refreshed Nov 1, 2026. Related entities from the other Glyph Ibis sources' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.