OpenAI’s o3 thinks before it answers. Anthropic’s Claude offers ‘extended thinking.’ Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro has ‘thinking built in.’ The synchronized pivot spans continents: American labs, Chinese companies, European teams... all racing toward the same finish line: AI that thinks where you can’t see it. The breakthrough feature is extended deliberation…
The Tortoise Revolution
How AI Labs Are Rebuilding Expertise Around One Core Feature: You Can't See How It Works
