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Samsung’s tiny new recursive model beats monster LLMs, has a mystery at its heart

Pay attention but beware hype-mongers.

Edward Targett
By  Edward Targett
Updated / Published 3 min read
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A “tiny recursive model” released by a Samsung researcher just outperformed DeepSeek-R1 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on the ARC-AGI reasoning benchmark, whilst being 0.01% of the size; a mere 7-million parameters. 

The hiccup: It took a heck of a long time to do as it made numerous “recursive” loops: “Experiments on ARC-AGI were ran [sic] for around 3 days with 4 H100 with 80Gb of RAM,” an October 6 paper showed.

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  • Edward Targett

    Edward Targett

    Ed is a co-founder of The Stack. He previously edited Computer Business Review. He has also covered energy markets. He started his journalism career on local papers. He left school at 15 and has made a living asking "but why?" ever since.

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