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		minimaxir 25 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for sp... "minimal" is a bit weird. > Matches the “no thinking” setting for most queries. The model may think very minimally for complex coding tasks. Minimizes latency for chat or high throughput applications. I'd prefer a hard "no thinking" rule than what this is.

GaggiX 25 days ago [–]

It still supports the legacy mode of setting the budget, you can set it to 0 and it would be equivalent to none reasoning effort like gpt 5.1/5.2

minimaxir 25 days ago | [–]

I can confirm this is the case via the API, but annoyingly AI Studio doesn't let you do so.

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