Google Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking: Fast Reasoning Model Challenges o1-mini

Google has released Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, a fast reasoning model that shows its chain-of-thought process before answering. Flash Thinking achieves scores competitive with OpenAI o1-mini on math and science benchmarks while being significantly faster and cheaper. The model excels at: complex mathematical reasoning, coding problems, and multi-step scientific analysis. Google offers Flash Thinking through the Gemini API with a 1M token context window and the ability to process images, video, and audio alongside text. Latency is approximately 2-3x lower than OpenAI o1 for comparable tasks.