Think Before Your Next Move: A Celebration of Inference Time Compute and AI

If you aren't sure what "inference time compute" is—this post is for you! I'll explain what it means, how it's changed everything in AI in the last few months, and predict what's next for AI this year

I still remember the first time I watched a language model “think out loud.” And credit here—the raw chain of thought prize goes to DeepSeek’s R1! As I prompted it with a question about product strategy, it began thinking out loud, writing down its reasoning step by step, as if solving it on scratch paper.

In that moment, I felt a spark. Yes, I’d seen r…