Following the announcement last Wednesday, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental and 2.0 Pro Experimental are seeing wider availability in the Android and iOS apps.
Gemini 2.0 Flash is the stable model that serves as Google’s default offering.
The company is now letting everyone test Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental. What’s new is how this model shows its thoughts after you enter a prompt. Gemini cycles through: Show thinking, Identify the question’s scope, Recognize the different perspectives, Brainstorm key concepts and related questions, Structure the answer, Refine and Elaborate within each section, Consider adding nuance and caveats, Review and edit.
Google launched its first reasoning model in December and released an update in January for developers.
On mobile, you get a “Thoughts” section, with the expected “Response” appearing afterwards. Built on 2.0 Flash’s speed and performance, you can see the streaming text in real-time, though it comes in faster than you can read. As a preview model, it “lacks access to real-time info and some Gemini features.”
Meanwhile, Google also released Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental with apps for “reasoning across Google apps,” like YouTube, Maps, and Search. This gets you more information, with the primary model “best for multi-step reasoning.”
Both are available to all for free, and we’re seeing it widely rolled out today in Gemini for Android and iOS, which got a small update today.
If you’re an Advanced subscriber, you’ll now see Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental (gemini-2.0-pro-exp-02-05). It’s aimed at complex and coding prompts, with “better understanding and reasoning of world knowledge” than any previous Google model. It has the same 1 million token context window as before, while also lacking real-time info at this stage.
Old vs. new
The current lineup is:
- 2.0 Flash: For everyday tasks
- 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental: Best for multi-step reasoning
- 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental with apps: Reasoning across YouTube, Maps & Search
- 2.0 Pro Experimental: Best for complex tasks
- 1.5 Pro with Deep Research: Get in-depth answers
- 1.5 Pro: Previous model
- 1.5 Flash: Previous model
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