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150M-parameter reasoning model sets new cost-accuracy frontier on ARC-AGI-1

Thinking Machines' 150M-parameter BDH-CQ reasoning model, which combines in-context learning with recurrent latent reasoning, achieves 29.5% pass@2 on the public ARC-AGI-1 evaluation set at a computed inference cost of $0.0007 per task, breaking the previously reported cost-accuracy Pareto frontier and establishing a new state of the art in benchmark cost efficiency.

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150M-parameter reasoning model sets new cost-accuracy frontier on ARC-AGI-1
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A 150M-parameter reasoning model using recurrent latent reasoning and in-context learning achieves a new cost-accuracy frontier on ARC-AGI-1.

thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small We introduce BDH-CQ, a reasoning model that combines in-context learning with recurrent latent reasoning. Inputs presented at inference time continuously update the model's recurrent memory; the model then solves a query through iterative computation in a high-dimensional latent space, without verbalizing its intermediate reasoning. We evaluate the model on the public ARC-AGI-1 evaluation set and use controlled ARC-like interventions to study what it learns from demonstrations, how consistently it applies an inferred transformation, and which concepts remain difficult. A 150M-parameter configuration reaches 29.5% pass@2 at a computed inference cost of $0.0007 per task. This operating point breaks through the previously reported ARC-AGI-1 cost-accuracy Pareto frontier, establishing a new state of the art in benchmark cost efficiency.

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