Google releases Gemini 2.5 Deep Think for AI Ultra subscribers

Google is unleashing its most powerful Gemini model today, but you probably won't be able to try it. After revealing Gemini 2.5 Deep Think at the I/O conference back in May, Google is making this AI available in the Gemini app. Deep Think is designed for the most complex queries, which means it uses more compute resources than other models. So it should come as no surprise that only those subscribing to Google's $250 AI Ultra plan will be able to access it.

Deep Think is based on the same foundation as Gemini 2.5 Pro, but it increases the "thinking time" with greater parallel analysis. According to Google, Deep Think explores multiple approaches to a problem, even revisiting and remixing the various hypotheses it generates. This process helps it create a higher-quality output.

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Like some other heavyweight Gemini tools, Deep Think takes several minutes to come up with an answer. This apparently makes the AI more adept at design aesthetics, scientific reasoning, and coding. Google has exposed Deep Think to the usual battery of benchmarks, showing that it surpasses the standard Gemini 2.5 Pro and competing models like OpenAI o3 and Grok 4. Deep Think shows a particularly large gain in Humanity's Last Exam, a collection of 2,500 complex, multi-modal questions that cover more than 100 subjects. Other models top out at 20 or 25 percent, but Gemini 2.5 Deep Think managed a score of 34.8 percent.