Inside Google’s AI leap: Gemini 2.5 thinks deeper, speaks smarter and codes faster

Google is moving closer to its goal of a “universal AI assistant” that can understand context, plan and take action. 

Today at Google I/O, the tech giant announced enhancements to its Gemini 2.5 Flash — it’s now better across nearly every dimension, including benchmarks for reasoning, code and long context — and 2.5 Pro, including an experimental enhanced reasoning mode, ‘Deep Think,’ that allows Pro to consider multiple hypotheses before responding. 

“This is our ultimate goal for the Gemini app: An AI that’s personal, proactive and powerful,” Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, said in a press pre-brief. 

‘Deep Think’ scores impressively on top benchmarks

Google announced Gemini 2.5 Pro — what it considers its most intelligent model yet, with a one-million-token context window — in March, and released its “I/O” coding edition earlier this month (with Hassabis calling it “the best coding model we ...