Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking (experimental)
Flash Thinking is Google's first reasoning-trained Gemini and exposes its thoughts, in public preview in AI Studio.
Spends extra inference-time tokens reasoning before answering, with visible thoughts. An updated gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21 followed 2025-01-21 (changelog). It reads as Google's response to OpenAI's o1 line, by inference.
- Date
- Thursday, 19 December 2024
- Lab
- Google DeepMind
- Kind
- model
- Access
- research preview
Only the API changelog entry was opened; benchmark figures not verified.
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