# What Anthropic saw inside an LLM

Published 8 March 2026

[Originally posted on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7436445465140899840/)

If you're curious how an LLM's inner workings resemble a human brain, watch this video. Here's what you'll learn:

1. 🔬 Anthropic built a "digital microscope" — the first real tool to peer inside an AI's mind and see how it actually thinks, not just what it outputs

2. 🧠 LLMs don't just memorize — they reason in steps. When asked "What's the capital of the state containing Dallas?", the model silently chains Dallas → Texas → Austin inside its head, just like you would

3. 🎯 They can actually plan ahead. When writing a rhyming poem, the model picks the ending word ("rabbit" or "habit") before it starts writing the line — it works backward from a goal, like a human poet

4. ⚠️ The honest limitations. Researchers admit there's still "dark matter" they can't explain — and they're refreshingly transparent about what they don't yet understand

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