Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro is here, and it just doubled its reasoning score

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• 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 ...