Claude rebuts Apple's "no reasoning" claim with 3 key arguments
Claude Opus refutes Apple's AI reasoning limits claim, exposing flawed testing methods. Proof: Smarter evaluations reveal true AI capabilities.
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A few days ago, Apple published a paper titled The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity. In this paper, Apple attempted to demonstrate that reasoning models such as DeepSeek R1, OpenAI o3, and Anthropic Claude fundamentally lack reasoning capabilities.
Once the paper was released, it sparked widespread controversy online. Some believed Apple wrote the article out of frustration due to its lagging position in AI development. Now, an even more intriguing development has emerged: the counterattack against Apple didn’t come from humans but from Anthropic’s latest model, Claude Opus. Acting as the first author, Claude Opus penned a rebuttal paper titled The Illusion of the Illusion of Thinking.
Published on the preprint research platform arXiv, Claude Opus’s paper systematically refutes the core arguments of Apple’s paper, pointing out that the so-called “reasoning collapse” is more a result of limitations in experimental design than a fundamental flaw in AI’s reasoning abilities.