Pietro Schirano

ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered one Pietro Schirano release so far: RAT (Retrieval Augmented Thinking) on Jan 23, 2025. RAT: pipe DeepSeek R1 reasoning into other models. The entry below has primary-source links and the episode where we covered it live.

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RAT (Retrieval Augmented Thinking)

RAT: pipe DeepSeek R1 reasoning into other models

Guest Pietro Schirano released RAT (Retrieval Augmented Thinking), a technique and tool that extracts DeepSeek R1's reasoning traces and feeds them to a cheaper, faster model like GPT-3.5 Turbo for the final answer. It showcases the new pattern of mixing open reasoning traces with closed completion models.