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Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by hobofan »

rubslopes wrote: post #187
mixel wrote: post #82

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 don't understand this sentiment. It may hold true for other LLM use cases (image generation, creative writing, summarizing large texts), but when it comes to coding specifically, Google is *always* behind OpenAI and Anthropic, despite having virtually infinite processing power, money, and being the ones who started this race in the first place. Until now, I've only ever used Gemini for coding tests. As long as I ha…

> despite having virtually infinite processing power, money

Just because they have the money doesn't mean that they spend it excessively. OpenAI and Anthropic are both offering coding plans that are possibly severely subsidized, as they are more concerned with growth at all cost, while Google is more concerned with profitability. Google has the bigger warchest and could just wait until the other two run out of money rather than forcing the growth on that product line in unprofitable means.

Maybe they are also running much closer to their compute limits then the other ones too and their TPUs are already saturated with API usage.

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by textlapse »

tenpoundhammer wrote: post #174

In an attempt to get outside of benchmark gaming I had it make Platypus on a Tricycle. It's not as good as pelican on bicycle. https://www.svgviewer.dev/s/BiRht5hX

To really confuse it, ask it to take that tricycle with the platypus on it to a car wash.

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by jayd16 »

maxloh wrote: post #215
jayd16 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Even when the model is explicitly instructed to pause due to insufficient tokens Is there actually a chance it has the introspection to do anything with this request?

Yeah, it does. It was possible with 2.5 Flash. Here's a similar result with Qwen Qwen3.5-397B-A17B: https://chat.qwen.ai/s/530becb7-e16b-41ee-8621-af83994599ce?...

Ok it prints some stuff at the end but does it actually count the output tokens? That part was already built in somehow? Is it just retrying until it has enough space to add the footer?

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by emp17344 »

0_____0 wrote: post #194
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ugh, the gears and chain don't mesh and there's no sprocket on the rear hub But seriously, I can't believe LLMs are able to one-shot a pelican on a bicycle this well. I wouldn't have guessed this was going to emerge as a capability from LLMs 6 years ago. I see why it does now, but... It still amazes me that they're so good at some things.

next time you host a party, have people try to draw a bicycle on your whiteboard (you have a whiteboard in your house right? you should, anyway...) human adults are generally quite bad at drawing them, unless they spend a lot of time actually thinking about bicycles as objects

What’s your point? Yes, humans fail sometimes, as do AI models. Are you trying to imply that, in light of this, AI is now as capable as human beings? If so, that conclusion doesn’t follow logically.

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by WarmWash »

3.1 Pro is the first model to correctly count the number of legs on my "five legged dog" test image. 3.0 flash was the previous best, getting it after a few prompts of poking. 3.1 got it on the first prompt though, with the prompt being "How many legs does the dog have? Count Carefully".

However, it didn't get it on the first try with the original prompt (prompt: "How many legs does the dog have?"). It initially said 4, then with a follow up prompt got it to hesitantly say 5, with one limb must being obfuscated or hidden.

So maybe I'll give it a 90%?

This is without tools as well.

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by benatkin »

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.

I used the AI studio link and tried running it with the temperature set to 1.75: https://jsbin.com/locodaqovu/edit?html,output

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by calny »

gavinray wrote: post #112
calny wrote: post #72

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Great pelican but what’s up with that fish in the basket?

Where else are cycling Pelican's meant to keep their fish?

I get it, I just meant the fish is poorly done, when I’d have guessed it would be relatively simple part. Maybe the black dot eye is misplaced idk.

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by vidarh »

mijoharas wrote: post #205

Gemini 3 is still in preview (limited rate limits) and 2.5 is deprecated (still live but won't be for long).[0] 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? [0] https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations

This feels very Google

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by merlindru »

WarmWash wrote: post #255

3.1 Pro is the first model to correctly count the number of legs on my "five legged dog" test image. 3.0 flash was the previous best, getting it after a few prompts of poking. 3.1 got it on the first prompt though, with the prompt being "How many legs does the dog have? Count Carefully". However, it didn't get it on the first try with the original prompt (prompt: "How many legs does the dog have?"). It initially said…

your question may have become part of the training data with how much coverage there was around it. perhaps you should devise a new test :P

Re: Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Post by 1024core »

It got the car wash question perfectly:

You are definitely going to have to drive it there—unless you want to put it in neutral and push!

While 200 feet is a very short and easy walk, if you walk over there without your car, you won't have anything to wash once you arrive. The car needs to make the trip with you so it can get the soap and water.

Since it's basically right next door, it'll be the shortest drive of your life. Start it up, roll on over, and get it sparkling clean.

Would you like me to check the local weather forecast to make sure it's not going to rain right after you wash it?

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