“Speculation” being the key word here. No references or evidence, just someone wondering if it could happen. I’m already skeptical of any LW article about AI, but this one didn’t even have any substance.

(…) Meta’s Coconut (“chain of continuous thought”) might soon be applied to frontier models, enabling continuous reasoning without using language as an intermediary state.

So much for describing a.i. as “a glorified word checker” 🤣