Jaeden Schafer

So certain people, academics and, you know, people that are testing this on Benchmark can try it out, but it's not generally available to everyone.

So a lot of people that are trying it right now are saying that this is a big upgrade.

But again, when you kind of have these general releases, like if I'm being 100% transparent,

Google usually and all of the AI model companies are going to give the early release to people that are big fans and are quite positive and supportive, right?

Like if Google came to me and was like, hey, we'll let you test out Gemini 3.1 for a week before everyone else gets it.

Let us know what you think.

I think there'd be a pretty strong pressure for me to say good things about it.

And if I didn't, I wouldn't get early access next time.

So I mean, I'm not trying to say Google's cooking the books in any way, shape or form on the benchmarks.

But I mean, this is the reality of the situation.

So

um they have a general release out a lot of people are excited about it saying that it is a big upgrade the one thing that i will give google a lot of credit for is that the last version gemini 3 came out in november so here we are in february we it's not that far in the distant future and we already have the the next model that is out even if people are testing and it's not fully released to everyone it is out on the market and so i'm really excited by that and i'm you know i'm stoked that google has been pushing so hard and has made a big upgrade and on on speed specifically now

The other thing that I think is funny, which is completely not important, but the naming convention, I appreciate that they're going Gemini 3.1, kind of like opening eyes doing GPT 5.1, 5.2, because these aren't like completely new trained models.

They just have fine-tuned it a lot.

And the one thing that I'll say is some people will be like, well, why are they having to fine-tune it?

Why don't they just do that before they release it?

I appreciate getting Gemini 3.

three pro out getting to play with that for a couple of months and then having them come up with all of their tweaks.

And a lot of times when they make these tweaks, I'll say when they come up with like, let's say Gemini, Gemini four, a lot of the tweaks that they put into Gemini 3.1, they're kind of these like software integrations, these upgrades.

If you've noticed with the chat GPT recently, when you ask it some sort of math question actually pulls up a literal calculator inside a chat GPT where it computes your question for you and shows you on a calculator.