Not quite. Looped models do the extra "thinking" inside the model's layers. So the token gets twice the number crunching performed on it before it gets spit out

Not quite. Looped models do the extra "thinking" inside the model's layers. So the token gets twice the number crunching performed on it before it gets spit out. I think of it as the first loop "kickstarts" the process, and the second loop refines it.