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A knockout blow for LLMs?

garymarcus.substack.com · 7 June 2025 · 8 min read

A post on garymarcus.substack.com, published 7 June 2025, is cited by 18 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 12 October 2026).

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18blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
Period Blogs Links
All time1818
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Figures for this page
First cited9 Jun 2025
Latest citation10 Jan 2026
Words blogs link it with5
Linked with its own title3 of 18 blogs
External links19
Length1,717
New citing blogs a weeksince Jun 2025
New citing blogs a week, since Jun 2025: 71 weeks, peak 11 a week, latest week 0

0 this week (still settling) · peak 11

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Shape: spike. Half of its 17 citing blogs had cited it after 5 days; 0% first cited it more than a year on.

Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. 1 blog has no dated post that cites this page: counted in the tally, not here. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Who cited it

Cited by 18 blogs across 4 subjects: technology 12, business and economics 1, food and drink 1, society and politics 1, unclassified 3.

Words blogs link it with

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • a knockout blow for llms?3 blogs
  • a good summary1 blog
  • a knockout blow for llms ?1 blog
  • gary marcus1 blog
  • gary marcus, the longtime ai skeptic, saw vindication1 blog

Cited by 18 blogs in 18 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

Blog
Newest citing post
Date
Home1 post
Musings on AI Read at tomcasavant.com (opens in a new tab)
10 Jan 2026
onlydeadfish.co.uk1 post
What comes after LLMs?

linked as “longer than many people”

Read at onlydeadfish.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
31 Dec 2025
Michael Tsai1 post
The Illusion of Thinking

linked as “a knockout blow for LLMs?”

Read at mjtsai.com (opens in a new tab)
25 Jul 2025
Membranophonist’s Ramblings – Interaction and interface design, photography, technology, politics, music, and random thoughts…1 post
Halfway to being Spider-Man Read at danieljwilson.me (opens in a new tab)
28 Jun 2025
simonw.substack.com1 post
The lethal trifecta for AI agents

linked as “a knockout blow for LLMs?”

Read at simonw.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
17 Jun 2025
systemsapproach.org1 post
A Middle Ground for AI

linked as “a good summary”

Read at systemsapproach.org (opens in a new tab)
16 Jun 2025
victoramartinez.com1 post
Beyond Token Limits: Why the Apple LRM Rebuttal Misses the Point

linked as “knocked out LLMs”

Read at victoramartinez.com (opens in a new tab)
15 Jun 2025
sentiers.media1 post
A new political compass ⊗ Normal technology at scale ⊗ Illusion or reason?

linked as “wrote about it”

Read at sentiers.media (opens in a new tab)
15 Jun 2025
magnus919.com1 post
The Illusion of Apple's AI Research

linked as “Gary Marcus, the longtime AI skeptic, saw vindication”

Read at magnus919.com (opens in a new tab)
15 Jun 2025
novelinvestor.com1 post
Weekend Reads – 6/13/25

linked as “Marcus on AI”

Read at novelinvestor.com (opens in a new tab)
13 Jun 2025
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com1 post
Bird of Pray

linked as “its version of "reasoning"”

Read at 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com (opens in a new tab)
13 Jun 2025
webcurios1 post
Webcurios 13/06/25

linked as “The LLM Cul-De-Sac Question”

Read at webcurios.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
13 Jun 2025
mathewingram.com1 post
Is AI smarter than we are or stupider than we are? Yes

linked as “hell no”

Read at mathewingram.com (opens in a new tab)
12 Jun 2025
Home - Geoff Graham1 post
A knockout blow for LLMs?

linked as “Gary Marcus”

Read at geoffgraham.me (opens in a new tab)
12 Jun 2025
edjohnsonwilliams.co.uk1 post
Use LLMs to use chess engines, not to play chess

linked as “writes this up as "truly embarrassing" and a "knockout blow" for LLMs”

Read at edjohnsonwilliams.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
11 Jun 2025
atp.fm1 post
643: You Go to Squircle Jail

linked as “GaryMarcus’ blog post”

Read at atp.fm (opens in a new tab)
10 Jun 2025
framablog.org1 post
Khrys’presso du lundi 9 juin 2025

linked as “A knockout blow for LLMs ?”

Read at framablog.org (opens in a new tab)
9 Jun 2025
Simon Willison1 post
Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and why they fall short

linked as “a knockout blow for LLMs?”

Read at simonwillison.net (opens in a new tab)
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