"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.

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GaggiX 5 days ago | parent [-]

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 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I can confirm this is the case via the API, but annoyingly AI Studio doesn't let you do so.