Google Announces Experimental 'Thinking' Gemini AI Model

Google has released yet another Gemini AI model, but this one isn't quite ready for prime time. The new, awkwardly named Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental model is available in Google's AI Studio for testing. This bot uses additional computing cycles to check its work, allowing it to handle more complex queries. This could offer a hint of how Google hopes to evolve its Gemini models in 2025.

The new LLM is built on the same foundation as the recently released Gemini 2.0 Flash, which is the first version of Google's next-gen models. The "Flash" designation indicates it's a smaller model than the "Pro" variants, but Google has said the 2.0 update allows these large language models (LLMs) to perform similarly to the bulkier Gemini 1.5 Pro.

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking appears to be Google's answer to the OpenAI o1 ...