Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Benchmarks Shock Everyone

Literally last night, Gemini 3.1 Pro gets released, which Google seem to do this. They wait and they wait and they wait and then they come out with something that this is actually kind of killing on all the benchmarks. Humanity's Last Exam ArcGI 2, not only is it beating three obviously, but it's beating Opus 4.6 on a lot of those things. Sweetbench verified. Again, I've never been a fan of Gemini as a coding tool at all. But saying that, I do use it on all of my nan tasks. I think it's a great generic AI, you know. Um, it's great at writing. I think it's good at writing. I think it's good at analysis. I think it's good for scientific purposes. Um, which is kind of, yeah, why I use it for sort of administration tasks. So they are also sharing these animations done uh with Gemini 3.1 Pro versus the old one and it's getting somewhere usable I would say. So the past animations you see it's clunky. It doesn't really make much sense. Uh it's not beautiful and you would say okay it looks cool but I'm not going to use it. the new version it's like yeah it is getting usable maybe not quite yet but it it is getting there it is good I mean like I would yeah I mean I I said to you earlier like a normie would look at this and be like what it looks absolutely I mean but we have to remind ourselves on what's being done here um and yeah it's a free animation so why not take it right yeah and maybe the designs are not good that that's Why I'm a bit hesitant. The designs are not amazing. Maybe it's just a bit too childish, maybe too cartoonish. Maybe it is a bit outdated the style. But maybe if you could get like a more nicer modern u style and animated the animations, like the physics of the animations look really spot-on. It it has details. It has like parallax. that has like some sort of like understandive understanding of the physics. I'm trying to think what model it was. I think it is Gemini that uh Replet uses for its designs is UI designs. I think it's really I do think this on in hindsight now I'm thinking I think Gemini is really good at UI design like a bit of a underdog cuz I mean look at this now you know it's and and I remember like doing a doing a test inside of Replet and it being quite creative when it comes to UI design. Don't get me wrong it's not going to be insane. What was that one? Claude be like um you know it's not going to be the same as a designer coming up doing loads of research figuring out it's not you're not going to beat that of course but for someone who just wants something a bit less AI generated and a bit more creative I think Gemini is your your go-to to be honest so yeah and replet streaming now look so you can vibe code your video oh because they uh I won't so now they've got an animation platform so you can vibe code your animation which is interesting. That's that's cool. Yeah. Is it using Gemini? Is it like motion? Well, yeah. I mean, it's same output, right? Same output. I don't know how it does it, but um maybe it's using Gemini under the hood. This is part of a larger conversation on my show, Command AI, which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter.