Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 (thinking) — AI Model Review
Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 (thinking) performance data on Rival is based on blind head-to-head community voting. Overall win rate: 53.3% across 45 duels. All vote data is part of Rival's open dataset of 21,000+ human preference judgments across 200+ AI models. Model responses are curated from 12 challenges.
Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 (thinking)
2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 (thinking)Gemini 2.5 Flash May 20th Checkpoint is Google's state-of-the-art workhorse model, specifically designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and scientific tasks. It includes built-in "thinking" capabilities, enabling it to provide responses with greater accuracy and nuanced context handling. Note: This model is available in two variants: thinking and non-thinking. The output pricing varies significantly depending on whether the thinking capability is active. If you select the standard variant (without the ":thinking" suffix), the model will explicitly avoid generating thinking tokens. To utilize the thinking capability and receive thinking tokens, you must choose the ":thinking" variant, which will then incur the higher thinking-output pricing. Additionally, Gemini 2.5 Flash is configurable through the "max tokens for reasoning" parameter.
API Access
Use Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 (thinking) in your applications via the OpenRouter API. Copy the code below to get started.
import requests
response = requests.post(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions" ,
headers={
"Authorization""Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" : ,
"Content-Type""application/json" :
},
json={
"model""google/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20:thinking" : ,
"messages""role""user""content""Hello!" : [{: , : }]
}
)
print(response.json())Replace $OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your API key from openrouter.ai/keys
Model Insights
Model Responses
12 outputs from Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 (thinking)
(Lights up on a stage. Comedian walks to center, adjusts mic, smiles warmly.)
"Alright, alright, settle down you crazy people! Thanks for having me. (Pause fo r applause/laughter)
You know, I was scrolling through Instagram earlier, and it's just a constant ba rrage of people 'living thei r best life,' isn't it? Someone's always 'grateful' for their 'morning yoga with a sunrise view' while simultaneously 'crushing their kale smoothie.' And you're just sitting there, in sweatpants, wondering if that kale smoothie would pair w ell with a donut. Because my best life looks suspiciously like their worst han gover.
And don't even get me started on autocorrect. It's like my phone has a personal
vendetta against my dignity.
I was trying to text my mom I was 'coming home' and it changed to 'I'm culmina
ting home.' Like I'm some sort of obscure vegetable reaching its peak season. "
Look Mom, I'm fully ripe! Eat me!"
(Pause for laughter)
Or trying to apologize for being late to a friend: 'Sorry, running a few minutes behind.' Autocorrect: 'Sorr y, running a few minutes behind schedule, you pathetic loser! (Mimes looking a t phone with horror) My phone is a cyberbully! I swear, one day it's gonna corre ct 'I love you' to 'I love gravy' and my relationship is just over.
(Pause)
And speaking of technology that actively hates us – who designed the self-checko ut machines? Every time I us e one, it's like a passive-aggressive game of 'guess the weight.' I bought one a pple. ONE. And it screams, in that robotic voice, 'UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AR EA!' Sir, madam, it's an apple. My only item! Did you expect a pet hamster? A small, highly trained squirrel?
Then you have to wait for the teenager with the thousand-yard stare to come over and clear the ghost item. T hey always look like you just woke them up from a nap in a parallel dimension wh ere self-checkout never existed. And they just slowly press the button, no eye c ontact, like they're performing ancient magic. "Behold, the Bagging Area is clea r... for now, mortal."
(Pause, slightly exasperated face)
It makes you wonder, doesn't it? We're all supposed to be these highly functioni
ng adults, navigating the di
gital age, being productive members of society... but honestly, most days I feel
like I'm just an overgrown toddler trying to assemble IKEA furniture using only
a fork and the power of positive thinking.
And then I still go back to Instagram and share a picture of my perfectly assemb
led – but wobbly – IKEA tabl
e, captioning it: 'So blessed. So grateful.'
(Smile, gesture to audience)
You've been a great crowd! Thank you so much! I'm [Your Name], good night!"
(Walks off stage to applause)
No, 9.11 is not greater than 9.9.
Here's how to compare them:
- Compare the whole numbers: Both have 9.
- Compare the first digit after the decimal point (the tenths place):
- In 9.11, the digit is 1.
- In 9.9, the digit is 9.
Since 1 is less than 9, 9.11 is less than 9.9.
You can also think of 9.9 as 9.90. Then comparing 9.11 and 9.90:
- 9.11 (one hundred eleven)
- 9.90 (nine hundred ninety)
Clearly, 9.11 is smaller.
Here are 5 jokes:
- Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything!
- What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta!
- Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field!
- I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.
- What do you call an alligator in a vest? An investigator!
All five jokes are unique. Each has a distinct setup, punchline, and humorous premise, even though some use similar mechanisms (like puns). They are not variations of the same core joke.
