François Chollet sees Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) in the future

In the era of base LLM scaling (2022-2024), I believed the LLM line of research would reach a capability plateau (as later seen with base LLMs).

In late 2024, after the o3 test-time compute demo, I changed my views: the new models were showing genuine fluid intelligence, and… https://t.co/Rc99Fcr6NM

— François Chollet (@fchollet) August 7, 2026

What are large reasoning models?