Gemini 3.1 Pro • Hacker News Board

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by minimaxir » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 4:47 PM UTC

quacky_batak wrote: post #54

I’m keen to know how and where are you using Gemini. Anthropic is clearly targeted to developers and OpenAI is general go to AI model. Who are the target demographic for Gemini models? ik that they are good and Flash is super impressive. but i’m curious

Gemini has an obvious edge over its competitors in one specific area: Google Search. The other LLMs do have a Web Search tool but none of them are as effective.

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by refulgentis » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 4:47 PM UTC

josalhor wrote: post #41

I speculated that 3 pro was 3.1... I guess I was wrong. Super impressive numbers here. Good job Google.

> I speculated that 3 pro was 3.1

?

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by eric15342335 » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 4:47 PM UTC

My first impression is that the model sounds slightly more human and a little more praising. Still comparing the ability.

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by WarmWash » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 4:48 PM UTC

bredren wrote: post #59

simonw wrote: post #52

Pretty great pelican: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/gemini-31-pro/ - took over 5 minutes though, but I think that's because they're having performance teething problems on launch day.

What is that, a snack in the basket?

A fish for the road

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by andy12_ » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 4:48 PM UTC

nickandbro wrote: post #51

Does well on SVGs outside of "pelican riding on a bicycle" test. Like this prompt: "create a svg of a unicorn playing xbox" https://www.svgviewer.dev/s/NeKACuHj Still some tweaks to the final result, but I am guessing with the ARC-AGI benchmark jumping so much, the model's visual abilities are allowing it to do this well.

I'm thinking now that as models get better and better at generating SVGs, there could be a point where we can use them to just make arbitrary UIs and interactive media with raw SVGs in realtime (like flash games).

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by xnx » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 4:49 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #52

Pretty great pelican: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/gemini-31-pro/ - took over 5 minutes though, but I think that's because they're having performance teething problems on launch day.

Not even animated? This is 2026.

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by jdc0589 » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 4:49 PM UTC

quacky_batak wrote: post #54

I’m keen to know how and where are you using Gemini. Anthropic is clearly targeted to developers and OpenAI is general go to AI model. Who are the target demographic for Gemini models? ik that they are good and Flash is super impressive. but i’m curious

I use it as my main platform right now both for work/swe stuff, and person stuff. It works pretty well, they have the full suite of tools I want from general LLM chat, to notebookLM, to antigravity.

My main use-cases outside of SWE generally involve the ability to compare detailed product specs and come up with answers/comparisons/etc... Gemini does really well for that, probably because of the deeper google search index integration.

Also I got a year of pro for free with my phone....so thats a big part.

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by jug » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 4:49 PM UTC

quacky_batak wrote: post #54

I’m keen to know how and where are you using Gemini. Anthropic is clearly targeted to developers and OpenAI is general go to AI model. Who are the target demographic for Gemini models? ik that they are good and Flash is super impressive. but i’m curious

I personally use it as my general purpose and coding model. It's good enough for my coding tasks most of the time, has very good and rapid web search grounding that makes the Google index almost feel like part of its training set, and Google has a family sharing plan with individual quotas for Google AI Pro at $20/month for 5 users which also includes 2 TB in the cloud. Family sharing is a unique feature for Gemini 3 Flash Thinking (300 prompts per day and user) & Pro (100 prompts per day and user).

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by aoeusnth1 » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 4:49 PM UTC

sho_hn wrote: post #11

sigmar wrote: post #6

blog post is up- https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/ge... edit: biggest benchmark changes from 3 pro: arc-agi-2 score went from 31.1% -> 77.1% apex-agents score went from 18.4% -> 33.5%

The touted SVG improvements make me excited for animated pelicans.

I imagine they're also benchgooning on SVG generation

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by sigmar » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 4:49 PM UTC

bredren wrote: post #59

simonw wrote: post #52

Pretty great pelican: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/gemini-31-pro/ - took over 5 minutes though, but I think that's because they're having performance teething problems on launch day.

What is that, a snack in the basket?

"integrating a bicycle basket, complete with a fish for the pelican... also ensuring the basket is on top of the bike, and that the fish is correctly positioned with its head up... basket is orange, with a fish inside for fun."

how thoughtful of the ai to include a snack. truly a "thanks for all the fish"