Of the models I've tried lately, I get more value out of Gemini for personal stuff like researching products or learning how to do things than the others. It seems more factually correct in domains I know about and hallucinates minor stuff less than the others.
... and it was not SOTA at the time of release. Gemini 3.1 Pro was previewed on 19 February 2026. It just barely beat GPT-5.3 and was roughly equal with Sonnet 4.6. Better according to some, worse according to others. And that lasted about 10 days (until GPT-5.4 came out which was also not a huge jump). And these are large averages. On coding or terminal Gemini 3.1 Pro was not close to Opus 4.6. Also it only matches the GLM 5 open model, more or less.
Last time Google had a "everybody agrees" SOTA model was Gemini 3 in November 2025, it beat GPT-5.1, it really was better and held it for a month.
Currently Google's best model doesn't match open models, in any category (performance, price or speed), in fact the last 4 open weight champions all beat Google's best model.
Of the models I've tried lately, I get more value out of Gemini for personal stuff like researching products or learning how to do things than the others. It seems more factually correct in domains I know about and hallucinates minor stuff less than the others.
I flop between 3.1 and 3.5 when I need it to be flawless. Fast and relatively affordable. Up to 6x cheaper than competitors.
DeepMind is absolutely still in the race to build AGI, but they see AGI as more than just a big LLM.
Google has not had a single SOTA model since about a year now.
You are exaggerating. 3.1 Pro came out in February of this year.
... and it was not SOTA at the time of release. Gemini 3.1 Pro was previewed on 19 February 2026. It just barely beat GPT-5.3 and was roughly equal with Sonnet 4.6. Better according to some, worse according to others. And that lasted about 10 days (until GPT-5.4 came out which was also not a huge jump). And these are large averages. On coding or terminal Gemini 3.1 Pro was not close to Opus 4.6. Also it only matches the GLM 5 open model, more or less.
Last time Google had a "everybody agrees" SOTA model was Gemini 3 in November 2025, it beat GPT-5.1, it really was better and held it for a month.
Currently Google's best model doesn't match open models, in any category (performance, price or speed), in fact the last 4 open weight champions all beat Google's best model.
Here's a plot of the evolution: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1v20g29/kimik3_...
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