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Google releases free Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, pressuring OpenAI’s premium strategy

Google challenges OpenAI with free Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, offering million-token processing, native code execution, and breakthrough performance in math and science benchmarks.

Google has quietly released a major update to its popular artificial intelligence model, Gemini, which now explains its reasoning process, sets new performance records in mathematical and scientific tasks, and offers a free alternative to OpenAI’s premium services. “We’ve been pioneering these types of planning systems for over a decade, starting with programs like AlphaGo, and it is exciting to see the powerful combination of these ideas with the most capable foundation models,” wrote Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, in a post on X.com (formerly Twitter). The model has already claimed the top spot on the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, a prominent benchmark for AI performance, leading in categories including hard prompts, coding, and creative writing.

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