https://minutesof.com/on/reasoning-models/ Everyone on the record about reasoning models: 8 verbatim quotes from 2 people, December 2024 to August 2025, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:11 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/46303177-e2ef-49ef-af33-cd38aa780554/ https://minutesof.com/q/46303177-e2ef-49ef-af33-cd38aa780554/ “So this is something that I've found very interesting is that we've been trying to build a lot of alternative data sources for token usage, who's using tokens, what models, where, etcetera, why, and it's very clear that people aren't actually using the reasoning models that much in API.” — Dylan Patel, No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:01:35 +0000 reasoning models https://minutesof.com/q/fb9c1dec-7583-4ee8-88a9-767fd9bc2d46/ https://minutesof.com/q/fb9c1dec-7583-4ee8-88a9-767fd9bc2d46/ “Right? And this has just happened in six months. And the same applies to various certain coding tasks. The same applies to yeah.” — Dylan Patel, MedBricks Webcast Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:55:08 +0000 reasoning models https://minutesof.com/q/31f04244-2e31-4194-a9b6-0a74afee5544/ https://minutesof.com/q/31f04244-2e31-4194-a9b6-0a74afee5544/ “So it's the remarkable thing about these reasoning results, and especially the DeepSeek r one paper, is this result that they call DeepSeek r one zero, which is they took one of these pretrained models.” — Dylan Patel, Lex Fridman Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:12:13 +0000 reasoning models https://minutesof.com/q/8ea24247-feff-4e7f-beec-571f6109d01d/ https://minutesof.com/q/8ea24247-feff-4e7f-beec-571f6109d01d/ “your memory usage is going way up with these reasoning models, and you still have a lot of users. So effectively, the cost to serve multiplies by a ton.” — Dylan Patel, Lex Fridman Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:12:13 +0000 reasoning models https://minutesof.com/q/fb69a564-812e-47e6-9f3d-e6f80b0878ca/ https://minutesof.com/q/fb69a564-812e-47e6-9f3d-e6f80b0878ca/ “So your your memory usage is going way up with these reasoning models, and you still have a lot of users.” — Dylan Patel, Lex Fridman Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:12:13 +0000 reasoning models https://minutesof.com/q/62ff4fe1-86c3-4195-b4f5-3a55efd51a21/ https://minutesof.com/q/62ff4fe1-86c3-4195-b4f5-3a55efd51a21/ “You know, I can go from 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 to billion to $10,000,000,000 on reasoning in such a quick succession.” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:25:20 +0000 reasoning models https://minutesof.com/q/38ed7f4e-e6ed-4c16-bbcb-20d3ff13c81a/ https://minutesof.com/q/38ed7f4e-e6ed-4c16-bbcb-20d3ff13c81a/ “E. Concurrent users I can have is a fraction of that. One fourth to one fifth the number of users can currently use the server.” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:25:20 +0000 reasoning models https://minutesof.com/q/476ea39f-bfb6-495d-9a59-81ea69699b0d/ https://minutesof.com/q/476ea39f-bfb6-495d-9a59-81ea69699b0d/ “It generates tons of things. It's like it it sometimes switches between Chinese and English. Right? Like, whatever it is. It's thinking. Right? It's churning.” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:25:20 +0000 reasoning models