You Can Choose New 'Thinking Levels' for Gemini
You need to use a lot of quotation when discussing AI. There's "intelligence," of course, but also " thinking ," which these days usually refers to a specific type of model that breaks requests into multiple steps and takes longer to process (or "think through") them. Thinking models are nothing new, but if you use Gemini, you do have new thinking "levels" to choose from when using non-thinking models. Here's how it works. As spotted by 9to5Google , there's a new "Thinking level" option at the bottom of the model selector in Google's Gemini app for iOS and Android . To be clear, this isn't the "Thinking" model listed under "Gemini 3," as this model has been available for some time. Instead, "Thinking level" appears when using either Fast (which uses Gemini 3 Flash), or Gemini 3.1 Pro, when you aren't using Thinking. When "Thinking level" does show up on your end, you'...