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Google has released Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, an experimental reasoning model that, quote,

explicitly shows its thoughts and can use them to strengthen its reasoning.

Quoting TechCrunch.

The new model called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, a mouthful to be sure,

is available in AI Studio, Google's AI prototyping platform.

A model card describes it as best for multimodal understanding, reasoning, and coding,

with the ability to, quote, reason over the most complex problems in fields such as programming,

math, and physics.

In a post on X, Logan Kilpatrick, who leads product for AI studio,

called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, quote, the first step in Google's reasoning

journey. Jeff Dean, chief scientist for Google DeepMind, Google's AI Research Division,

said in his own blog post that Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking experimental is,

quote, trained to use thoughts to strengthen its reasoning. We see promising results when we

increase inference time computation, Dean said, referring to the amount of computation used to run the

model as it considers a question, end quote. And quoting the verge. The demo shared by Dean shows how

Gemini 2.0 flash thinking goes about answering a physics problem by, quote, thinking through a series

of steps before offering a solution. This isn't necessarily reasoning in the way humans perform it,

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