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TL;DR
- Google is testing a new feature that lets users prevent Gemini 3 Pro from thinking.
- This will allow Gemini to fall back on the Flash model, resulting in quicker responses.
- Google is already testing the feature with a select set of users.
With the release of the Gemini 3 generation of AI models, Google’s smart assistant has racked up brilliant deep-thinking capabilities. However, the lack of a smart automatic model selector actively switching between fast and deep-thinking models — as ChatGPT offers — can result in Gemini taking longer and consuming more tokens for straightforward queries that don’t truly require deep thinking.
An upcoming update to Gemini, however, could fix that, allowing users to manually override thinking and dial back to a quicker response.