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Applied AI·September 1, 2026·1 min read

Frontier models can recover up to 65% of facts they can't directly recall — just by thinking longer

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If frontier models can recover ~65% of “forgotten” facts by simply extending reasoning time, your first lever is inference-time strategy, not another retrain or heavier RAG stack. Teams should be benchmarking depth-of-thought settings and cost/latency tradeoffs before committing to more complex retrieval architectures.