Google previews Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, a new AI reasoning model to rival OpenAI’s o1

On Thursday, December 19, Google unveiled its new AI reasoning model called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking that could rival OpenAI’s much talked about o1 model. While still in the experimental phase, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is currently accessible to users through the search giant’s AI studio.

Similar to o1, Google’s latest AI model uses runtime reasoning techniques to achieve deeper thinking when users input complex problems to solve. This means that the model pauses to consider other related user prompts before providing an answer that it determined as being the most accurate.