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Gemini 3.1 Pro is now available.
It builds on the benchmark progress Gemini 3 established for Google.
Model capabilities are ultimately relative, one expert said.
Another week, another "smarter" model -- this time from Google, which just released Gemini 3.1 Pro.
Gemini 3 outperformed several competitor models since its release in November, beating Copilot in a few of our in-house task tests, and has generally received praise from users. Google said this latest Gemini model, announced Thursday, achieved "more than double the reasoning performance of 3 Pro" in testing, based on its 77.1% score on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark for "entirely new logic patterns."
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The latest model follows a "major upgrade" to Gemini 3 Deep Think last week, which boasted new capabilities in chemistry and physics alongside new accomplishments in math and coding, according to Google. The company said the Gemini 3 Deep Think upgrade was built to address "tough research challenges -- where problems often lack clear guardrails or a single correct solution and data is often messy or incomplete." Google said Gemini 3.1 Pro undergirds that science-heavy investment, calling the model the "upgraded core intelligence that makes those breakthroughs possible."
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