Google Gemini 2.5 Is the Newest Model Set to Compete With DeepSeek R1

Gemini 2.5 is a new AI reasoning model that's set to compete with DeepSeek R1 and is currently the highest-rated AI model overall on LMArena, Google said in a blog post on Tuesday. Google describes the new line of Gemini 2.5 models as "thinking models," ones that recursively analyze their answers before giving people a final output. Per benchmarks on LMArena, Gemini 2.5 is leading in reasoning, science, math and agentic coding. It's not winning in all tests, however. For example, OpenAI o3-mini still leads it in LiveCodeBench v5. Gemini 2.5 is rolling out to paid Advanced users now. Some users on Reddit are reporting that they needed to delete and reinstall the Gemini app for 2.5 to show up. On desktop, Gemini 2.5 can be found on Google AI Studio. One advantage that Google's AI models have over the competition is the high token rate -- the ability to understand or produce complex sets of data. Google has always touted Gemini as the AI that can handle large context windows with high ... Read full article.