# Study finds extra inference compute can recover some inaccessible model facts

_Tuesday, September 1, 2026 at 3:20 PM EDT · Science · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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A study by Google Research and Technion researchers found that tested frontier models encoded 95% to 98% of WikiProfile facts, while failing to directly recall 26% to 34% of those encoded facts without thinking. Extra inference-time computation recovered 40% to 65% of initially inaccessible encoded facts, according to the report. The researchers evaluated 13 models across more than 4 million responses.

## Sources

- [VentureBeat](https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/frontier-models-can-recover-up-to-65-of-facts-they-cant-directly-recall-just-by-thinking-longer)

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