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title: "What are reasoning models?"  
description: "What are reasoning models?"  
author: "Manish Kumar"  
published: 2026-06-12  
updated: 2026-06-12  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/116788/what-are-reasoning-models  
category: "artificial-intelligence"  
tags: ["artificial intelligence", "llm"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What are reasoning models?

What are [reasoning](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/342078/claude-design-how-modern-ai-assistants-are-built-for-safety-reasoning-and-usability) [models](https://www.mindstick.com/news/3635/microsoft-s-latest-launch-phi-2-small-language-model)?


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