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Yacine claims a February 2024 DeepSeek commit pioneered test-time compute, drawing pushback from Will Depue

Depue disputed that DeepSeek discovered Chain-of-Thought Reinforcement Learning.

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kache@yacineMTB#403inTech

@willdepue @ibuyrugs yes, specifically from deepseek, the chinese lab that invented what was rebranded into the "test time compute" meme

here is the commit

will depue@willdepue

@ibuyrugs there have been and will be massive trade secrets from research breakthroughs https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/

11:23 AM · Jun 20, 2026 · 569 Views

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Some users mocked suggestions that DeepSeek discovered chain-of-thought RL, rejecting the idea their GitHub commit showed genuine early test-time compute progress.

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