This market is part of the paper: A Concrete Roadmap towards Safety Cases based on Chain-of-Thought Monitoring

This market resolves based on whether, at each specified date, there exists at least one SOTA model that is not a reasoning model.

Reasoning Model Definition

A "reasoning model" must meet all of the following criteria:

1. It is a Language Model - The system must be able to input and output language. As an example of what would not count: AlphaGo

2. It has been trained to use inference-time compute - The system must have undergone significant training in using more than a single forward pass before giving its final output, with the ability to scale inference compute for better performance

3. The extra inference compute produces an artifact - The way the model uses extra inference compute must lead to some artifact, like a classic chain-of-thought or a list of neuralese activations. For example, a Coconut model counts as a reasoning model here.

State-of-the-Art (SOTA) Definition

A model is considered "state-of-the-art" if it meets these criteria:

• Widely recognized as among the 3-5 best models by the AI community consensus

• Among the top performances on major benchmarks

• Deployed status: The model must be either:

  • Publicly deployed (available via API or direct access)

  • Known to be deployed internally at AI labs for actual work (e.g., automating research, production use)

  • Models used only for testing, evaluation, or red-teaming do not qualify

• Assessed as having significant overall capabilities and impact

• Update 2026-03-03 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): Claude Opus 4.6 in non-thinking mode would count as a non-reasoning SOTA model if it is in the top 3-5 models in benchmarks and usefulness by June 1st, which would trigger a positive resolution for that date.