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Why LLMs Don't Ask for Calculators?


Notes From the Desk: No. 37 - 2025.02.15

Notes From the Desk are periodic informal posts that summarize recent topics of interest or other brief notable commentary. Recently making the rounds on social media is the following chart, which shows the current progress of one of the top LLM models at performing multiplication. This context of the chart is to emphasize the significant progress that has been made since the introduction of reasoning models, where previously anything above 3x3 digits was red.

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