AI model updates don't usually have wholesale massive improvements the way they did a couple of years ago, but Google's upgraded Gemini model, Gemini 3.1 Pro, promised a subtle yet substantial enhancement to the Gemini 3 Pro model.
Gemini 3 was a powerhouse comparable to the best of ChatGPT, with impressive multimodal abilities, but the 3.1 update represents a pivot toward deeper reasoning. It is not necessarily faster, and in some modes, it is intentionally slower, taking a moment to chew on a problem before spitting out an answer.
