The new model, called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, is available in AI Studio, Google’s AI prototyping platform. The company says it’s “best suited for multimodal understanding, reasoning, and coding,” with the ability to “think through the most complex problems” in areas like programming, math, and physics.
The new model, called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, is available in AI Studio, Google’s AI prototyping platform. The company says it’s “best suited for multimodal understanding, reasoning, and coding,” with the ability to “think through the most complex problems” in areas like programming, math, and physics.
Built on Google's recently announced Gemini 2.0 Flash model, the Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental is similar in design to OpenAI's o1 and other so-called "reasoning" models, TechCrunch writes .
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is trained to generate the “thinking process” that the model goes through as part of its response. As a result, the thinking mode has stronger reasoning capabilities in its responses than the base Gemini 2.0 Flash model.
The downside is that reasoning models often take longer to find a solution — usually a few seconds or minutes.
When given a clue, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking pauses before responding, considering a series of related clues and “explaining” its reasoning as it goes. After a while, the model summarizes what it believes to be the most accurate answer.
When the AI was asked how many R's are in the word strawberry, it said "two." The reasoning process can be seen in the screenshot above.
