google on thursday Issued The latest version of Gemini Pro, its powerful LLM. The model, 3.1, is currently available as a preview and will be released generally soon, the company said.
Google’s new model could be one of the most powerful LLMs ever. Onlookers have noted that the Gemini 3.1 Pro appears to be a big step up from its predecessor, the Gemini 3 – which, when released in November, was already considered A highly capable AI tool.
On Thursday, Google also shared data from independent benchmarks – such as Humanity’s Last Exam – that showed it performed significantly better than its previous version.
Gemini 3.1 Pro was also praised by Brendan Foody, CEO of AI startup Mercor, whose benchmarking system, Apex, is designed to measure how well new AI models perform real professional tasks. “Gemini 3.1 Pro now tops the Apex-Agents leaderboard,” Foody said. in a social media postSaying that the model’s impressive results show “how fast agents are improving on real knowledge tasks.”
comes as release AI model wars are heating upAnd technology companies continue to release increasingly powerful LLMs designed for agentic work and multi-step reasoning. Other major names, including OpenAI and Anthropic, have also released new models recently.
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