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Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Google releases its own “reasoning” AI model

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is Google’s take on so-called AI reasoning models.

The experimental model builds on Google's newly released Gemini 2.0 Flash and runs on its AI Studio platform, but early tests conducted by TechCrunch reporter Kyle Wiggers reveal accuracy issues with some basic tasks, such as incorrectly counting that the word "strawberry" contains two R's. Companies have turned to reasoning models as traditional scaling methods at training time have been showing diminishing returns. For example, DeepSeek launched DeepSeek-R1 in early November, while Alibaba's Qwen team released its own "reasoning" model, QwQ earlier this month.

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