Google is bringing its experimental “reasoning” artificial intelligence model capable of explaining how it answers complex questions to the Gemini app. The Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking update is part of a slew of Gemini 2.0 AI rollouts announced by Google today, including its latest Gemini 2.0 Pro flagship model. This comes as the search giant is expecting to invest $75 billion on expenditures like growing its monotonously named family of AI models this year. That’s a considerable jump from the $32.3 billion on capital expenditures it spent in 2023, with Google now racing to keep up with AI competitors like OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, and the Amazon-backed Anthropic. Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking will be available in the model dropdown options on the desktop and mobile app starting today, alongside another, more agentic, version of the model that can “interact with apps like YouTube, Search, and Google Maps,” according to Google. It was introduced in December 2024 and is expected to compete with other so-called reasoning AI models like OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek’s R1.

Full story : Google adds Gemini 2.0 Flash, 2.0 Flash-Lite, and 2.0 Pro Experimental to Gemini’s API, and 2.0 Pro Experimental and 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental to its apps.