India, July 21 -- Every day, millions of people rely on AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. A recent landmark study by Anthropic now offers a glimpse into what happens inside these systems before they produce an answer.

Millions of people around the world use these AI assistants daily to seek answers to countless questions. Students seek help with homework, housewives request for diet plans, professionals prepare reports, doctors summarise medical research and travellers plan holidays. AI has quietly become a part of everyday life. Yet one question has continued to puzzle even the AI experts who built these systems: 'What actually happens inside AI after we ask a question and before it produces an answer?'

The AI black box...