Shortly after OpenAI released o1, its first “reasoning” AI model, people began noting a curious phenomenon. The model would sometimes begin “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other language — ...

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Users across various platforms have reported instances where OpenAI's o1 model begins its reasoning process in English but ...