Google just upgraded Gemini again, and 3.1 Pro more than doubles its AI reasoning power — but some users aren’t impressed

• Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro rolls out today — with a big leap in AI-reasoning performance
• New benchmarks show it more than doubles problem-solving ability vs Gemini 3 Pro
• Some users say the upgrade comes at a cost — with less personality and empathy

Google has rolled out an upgraded Gemini 3.1 Pro 'preview' across its subscription plans, from Free to Plus, Pro, and Ultra. If you open the Gemini app now, you should see that the Pro option in the model selector has been updated to 3.1 Pro. Gemini 3.1 Pro is also available in Google’s NotebookLM research tool.

Google is calling 3.1 Pro a “smarter, more capable baseline for complex problem-solving,” and to back that up it has published benchmark results showing just how much better the new model performs compared to Gemini 3 Pro.

On ARC-AGI-2 — a benchmark that evaluates ...