Do reasoning models have real “Aha!” moments—mid-chain realizations where they intrinsically self-correct? In a new pre-print, “The Illusion of Insight in Reasoning Models," led by Liv d'Aliberti, we provide strong evidence that they do not! 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2601.00514

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