Two weeks ago, Google and OpenAI touted their models’ award-winning performance at the International Math Olympiad (IMO). Now, Google is making a version of its model available to the public.
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On Friday, Google launched Deep Think in the Gemini app for Google Ultra subscribers, a premium subscription tier that costs $250 per year or $125 for the first three months. Although the model is a variation of the one that achieved the gold-medal standard at IMO, it is faster for everyday tasks. Internal evaluations suggested the model reaches bronze-level on the 2025 IMO benchmark.
How does it work
The superior performance solving complex problems is enabled by a parallel thinking technique, which allows the model to simultaneously generate and process multiple ideas, even combining different ones as necessary to find the best answer.
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Other factors contributing to the high performance include an extended inference time, also known as thinking time, which allows Deep Think to explore more options before arriving at an answer, and new reinforcement learning techniques that help the model to become a better problem-solver over time.
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