Yeah I see what you mean. There’s a decent argument to be made that something like reasoning appears as an emergent property in this kind of system, I’ll admit. Still, the fact that fundamentally the code works as a prediction engine rules out any sort of real cognition, even if it makes an impressive simulacrum. There’s just no ability to invent, no true novelty, which – to my mind at least – is the hallmark of actual reasoning.

It’s real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)

an open source reasoning AI

It’s still an LLM right? I’m going to have to take issue with your use of the word ‘reasoning’ here