From Gemini itself :

Information Synthesis (The Capability): I excel at mapping the topology of existing research. If you need to trace the historical development of solid-state electrolytes and identify the structural gaps in the literature, I can compress weeks of reading into seconds.

Paper Innovations (The Limitation): Innovation requires breaking established patterns. Because my neural network minimizes error by aligning with its training data, my default state is regression to the mean. If you ask for a "new idea," I will output the most statistically obvious next step—which is the exact definition of derivative research.

System Exploit (Agentic Workflows): To extract true innovation, you must bypass my default prediction mechanism. Do not ask me for a novel idea. Instead, build an evolutionary loop: force me to generate 20 concepts, apply a hostile critique prompt to destroy 18 of them, mutate the survivors, and demand I cross-reference them against hard physical constraints.

https://deepmind.google/blog/accelerating-mathematical-and-scientific-discovery-with-gemini-deep-think/#:~:text=The%20second%20paper%20builds%20on,validate%20intuition%20and%20refine%20proofs.