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Ok, why don't you work on getting 3.0 out of preview first? 10 min response time is pretty heinous
Price is unchanged from Gemini 3 Pro: $2/M input, $12/M output. https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing Knowledge cutoff is unchanged at Jan 2025. Gemini 3.1 Pro supports "medium" thinking where Gemini 3 did not: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/gemini-3 Compare to Opus 4.6's $5/M input, $25/M output. If Gemini 3.1 Pro does indeed have similar performance, the price difference is notable.
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So much this. It's absolutely amazing how hostile Google is to releasing billing options that are reasonable, controllable, or even fucking understandable. I want to do relatively simple things like: 1. Buy shit from you 2. For a controllable amount (ex - let me pick a limit on costs) 3. Without spending literally HOURS trying to understand 17 different fucking products, all overlapping, with myriad project configs,…
You think AWS is better?
Are Google planning to put any of their models into production any time soon?
Also somewhat funny that some models are deprecated without a suggested alternative(gemini-2.5-flash-lite). Do they suggest people switch to Claude?
We've gone from yearly releases to quarterly releases. If the pace of releases continues to accelerate - by mid 2027 or 2028 we're headed to weekly releases.
But actual progress seems to be slower. These modes are releasing more often but aren’t big leaps.
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.
Models are soon going to start benchmaxxing generating SVGs of pelicans on bikes
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/13/training-for-pelicans-...
Google seems to really pull ahead in this AI race. For me personally they offer the best deal and although the software is not quiet there compared to openai or anthropic (in regards to 1. web GUI, 2. agent-cli). I hope they can fix that in the future and I think once Gemini 4 or whatever launches we will see a huge leap again
I hope they fail. I honestly do not wish Google to have the best model out there and be forced to use their incomprehensible subscription / billing / project management whatever shit ever again. I don’t know what their stuff cost. I don’t know why would I use vertex or ai studio. What is included in my subscription what is billed per use. I pray that whatever they build fails and burns.
I would love for them to eliminate these issues because just touting benchmark scores isn't enough.