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Ben Turner

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Advanced ai models generate up to 50 times more co emissions than more common llms when answering the same questions - You Need To See This

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The more accurate we try to make AI models, the bigger their carbon footprint — with some prompts producing up to 50 times more carbon dioxide emissions than others, a new study has revealed.

Reasoning models, such as Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's o3 and DeepSeek's R1, are specialized large language models (LLMs) that dedicate more time and computing power to produce more accurate responses than their predecessors.

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