My brain broke when I read this paper.
A tiny 7 Million parameter model just beat DeepSeek-R1, Gemini 2.5 pro, and o3-mini at reasoning on both ARG-AGI 1 and ARC-AGI 2.
It's called Tiny Recursive Model (TRM) from Samsung.
How can a model 10,000x smaller be smarter?
Here's how it works:
1. Draft an Initial Answer: Unlike an LLM that writes word-by-word, TRM first generates a quick, complete "draft" of the solution. Think of this as its first rough guess.
2. Create a "Scratchpad": It then creates a separate space for its internal thoughts, a latent reasoning "scratchpad." This is where the real magic happens.
3. Intensely Self-Critique: The model enters an intense inner loop. It compares its draft answer to the original problem and refines its reasoning on the scratchpad over and over (6 times in a row), asking itself, "Does my logic hold up? Where are the errors?"
4. Revise the Answer: After this focused "thinking," it uses the improved logic from its scratchpad to create a brand new, much better draft of the final answer.
5. Repeat until Confident: The entire process, draft, think, revise, is repeated up to 16 times. Each cycle pushes the model closer to a correct, logically sound solution.
Why this matters:
Business Leaders: This is what algorithmic advantage looks like. While competitors are paying massive inference costs for brute-force scale, a smarter, more efficient model can deliver superior performance for a tiny fraction of the cost.
Researchers: This is a major validation for neuro-symbolic ideas. The model's ability to recursively "think" before "acting" demonstrates that architecture, not just scale, can be a primary driver of reasoning ability.
Practitioners: SOTA reasoning is no longer gated behind billion-dollar GPU clusters. This paper provides a highly efficient, parameter-light blueprint for building specialized reasoners that can run anywhere.
This isn't just scaling down; it's a completely different, more deliberate way of solving problems.
I put all of my Ray Tracing Gems chapters in one place where you can download them, extracted from books into separate PDFs: https://t.co/AOGFePRgoG
There is:
1. "Ray Traced Shadows"
2. "Reference Path Tracer"
3. "Refraction Ray Cones"
4. "Many Lights With Grid-based Reservoirs"
This is Hollywood grade lip-syncing:
Here is how to create an AI avatar with accurate and realistic Lip-Sync. This might be currently the best tool for video-to-video right now.
Only 4 steps are needed:
MIMO: Advanced Video-to-Video Model by Alibaba
This is insane!
With this v2v model, we can take a video of ourselves and use it to animate any character we create, all while keeping the original background from the video.
It's like we're putting ourselves into any other new worlds!
6 Example:
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Working on structural connectivity system. Arrows show direction of load bearing connections, color shows load ratio (red means high degree of stress). This system will allow buildings to collapse under their own weight and be destroyed in more interesting ways
#gamedev#indiedev
Once @Microsoft 's Shader Model 7 is released, #DirectX 12 will accept shaders compiled to SPIR-V. Microsoft is working with the Khronos #SPIR and #Vulkan Working Groups to ensure that this transition benefits the whole development ecosystem.
https://t.co/QA5ogxxyqN
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I've rewritten the signed distance field generator by @catlikecoding to be 40x to 75x faster by using Unity Burst. It's available here (licensed partly MIT and partly MPL 2.0):
https://t.co/mUrxGhFiH8