Given a prompt, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental pauses before responding, considering a number of related prompts and “explaining” its reasoning along the way. After a while, the model summarizes what it considers to be the most accurate answer.
Well — that’s what’s supposed to happen. When I asked Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental how many R’s were in the word “strawberry,” it said “two.”