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Don't ask it to name an NFL team that doesn't end with 's'
DeepSeek eventually gets it, but it's DeepThink takes a good ten minutes of racing 'thoughts' and loops to figure it out.
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I'd guess that got something to do with how the underlying token processing and the "reasoning models" work.
Tokenisation probably turns plurals into singular forms, most of the teams loose the s at the end.
Reasoning mode looks at the previous output, sees that there is an s at the end actually.
You can actually inspect the tokenization using their API. It can get pretty wild.