Ask HN: How Does DeepSeek "Thinks"?
1 JPLeRouzic 1 6/26/2025, 8:12:03 AM
There is a useful feature in DeepSeek that isn't present in other commercial LLMs. It displays its internal "thinking" process. I wonder what technological aspect makes this possible. Do several LLMs communicate with each other before providing a solution? Are there different roles within these LLMs, such as some proposing solutions, others contradicting or offering alternative viewpoints, or reminding of overlooked aspects?
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>I wonder what technological aspect makes this possible.
one of its training datasets (prioritized somehow over the rest of them) contains a large number of examples emulating the thinking process within <think></think> tags before providing an output. the model then emulates it at runtime.