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REASONING
All blog posts, tools, and guides about Reasoning from Developers Digest.
12 resources - 2 posts, 9 tools, 1 guide
Blog Posts
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VibeThinker-3B: A 3 Billion Parameter Model That Outscores Opus 4.5 on Reasoning
A new paper shows a 3B parameter model hitting 94.3 on AIME26 and 96.1% on LeetCode contests - matching or exceeding models 100x its size. The catch: it traded general knowledge for pure reasoning ability.
6 min read
Extended Thinking in Claude: When Deep Reasoning Pays For Itself
A production guide to Claude's extended thinking mode. Real cost math, TypeScript SDK code, and the tasks where reasoning tokens are worth 3x the spend.
12 min read
Related Tools
All tools →Claude
Daily DriverAnthropic's AI. Opus 4.6 for hard problems, Sonnet 4.6 for speed, Haiku 4.5 for cost. 200K context window. Best coding model I've tested. Max plan ($200/mo).
AI ModelsChatGPT
OpenAI's flagship. GPT-4o for general use, o3 for reasoning, Codex for coding. 300M+ weekly users. Tasks, agents, web browsing, DALL-E, code interpreter.
AI ModelsDeepSeek
Open-source reasoning models from China. DeepSeek-R1 rivals o1 on math and code benchmarks. V3 for general use. Fully open weights. Extremely cost-effective API.
AI ModelsGPT-5
OpenAI's latest flagship model. Major leap in reasoning, coding, and instruction following over GPT-4o. Powers ChatGPT Plus/Pro and the API. Available via API and ChatGPT.
AI ModelsGemini
Google's frontier model family. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 1M token context and top-tier coding benchmarks. Gemini 3 Pro pushes reasoning further. Free tier via AI Studio.
AI ModelsGrok
xAI's model with real-time X/Twitter data access. Grok 3 rivals top models on reasoning. Built-in web search and current events awareness. Available via API.
AI ModelsDeepSeek V3.2
DeepSeek's reasoning-first model built for agents. First model to integrate thinking directly into tool use. Ships alongside V3.2-Speciale, which rivals GPT-5 and Gemini 3.0 Pro.
AI ModelsClaude Opus 4.7
Anthropic's flagship reasoning model. Best-in-class for coding, long-context analysis, and agentic workflows. 1M token context window. Available via API and in Claude Code.
AI ModelsClaude Fable 5
NewAnthropic's first generally available Mythos-class model, released June 9, 2026. 1M context, 128K max output, $10/$50 per million tokens. Built for long-horizon agentic work.
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