VentureBeat January 22, 2025
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.
The new Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, released Tuesday in the Google AI Studio under the experimental designation “Exp-01-21,” has achieved a 73.3% score on the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) and 74.2% on the GPQA Diamond science benchmark. These results show clear improvements over earlier AI models and demonstrate Google’s increasing strength in advanced reasoning.
“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...