Google germinates Gemini 3.1 Pro in ongoing AI model race

If you want an even better AI model, there could be reason to celebrate. Google, on Thursday, announced the release of Gemini 3.1 Pro, characterizing the model's arrival as "a step forward in core reasoning."

Measured by the release cadence of machine learning models, Gemini 3.1 Pro is hard on the heels of recent model debuts from Anthropic and OpenAI. There's barely enough time to start using new US commercial AI models before a competitive alternative surfaces. And that's to say nothing about the AI models coming from outside the US, like Qwen3.5.

Google's Gemini team in a blog post contends that Gemini 3.1 Pro can tackle complex problem-solving better than preceding models. And they cite benchmark test results – which should be viewed with some skepticism – to support that claim. On the ARC-AGI-2 problem-solving test, Gemini 3.1 Pro scored 77.1 ...