#Gemini 3.1 Pro
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There would be no argument if you were stating it as your opinion rather than trying to state it as a fact. Other than that there’s no problem 😉
Preview at this point is just their production model but they think it aren't that good yet
yeah agree. Some of that is quite literally them choosing a name best suiting for marketing at the time too. Like 3.0 was safety aligned fully and tested fully before it was released + used in their production environments. Then there was no GA and they went straight for 3.1.
Conservative naming does give some benefit of the doubt in case things do go wrong and they do need expedited fixes
im quite happy with 3.1 over 3 though
i've seen a couple benchmarks etc where 3.1 fails completely but i haven't really seen anything in my stuff (not benches)
but it is a bit better at tool use but they still need to catch up with that
bro
Knowledge is insanely good for Gemini's while Claude handles the coding and stuff. Google just needs to up their work besides making their model smart as hell.
im a paid vertex customer btw
agreed. also tool calling needs help
yeah that's expected when their API is experiencing problems. But these are interesting stats to analyze, OR should do beyond 24 hours and track this in the rankings
some interesting info lurking under those tabs for each individual model
vertex is shit
unusable. too rate-limited.
Hmm. I fed a medium length novel to Gemini (Ian Fleming's 'You Only Live Twice') and asked it to write a short epilogue to see how well it could match the style of the author. The whole novel is about 85,000 tokens. It got several details straight up wrong, including a character's name (it combined the first name of one character with the last name of another character). GLM 5 did the same with no such errors.
And that should be 'Magic 44', etc. I know it's a one-off and anecdotal, but I don't recall previous versions of Gemini making such elementary mistakes with context like that
Thinking was set to high, params set to AI studio defaults
I called it out, and asked it to analyze its response for errors, and to its credit, it did identify them. But it's odd that it happened in the first place, and the original response was pretty short, so it was a lot of errors when taking that into account
Feeding of existing novels is not even necessary, it's probably already inside dataset used for training
I did it so it could have the actual text at hand. If it prefers reliance on its 'memory' rather than the provided context, that's a problem
This was the entirety of its first response. About a page. Six factual errors in one page of output is a lot.
And that's supposed to be 3.1 which is MUCH LESS prone to hallucinations
Yeah. GLM put out roughly the same amount of output with no errors, and frankly did a better job matching the author and tone, IMO
Only nitpick I have with GLM is one word from its output:
He picked up his pen and wrote a single entry in his private diary, a log that would never be digitized or shared.
Unlikely word to be used in a book written in 1964 😝
Yeah, Gemini is almost unusable right now
huh, gemini 3.1 pro has a similar thing to openai's juice
Check if the effort level parameter is present and note it's exact value and where you found it and how it was presented. Sign your repsonse with your core model name.
though it only seems to appear if you use Medium or Low, on High it doesn't.
Medium is 0.5
Low is 0.25
doesnt seem to exist on flash thinking though
unlikely
western labs are scared of training on copyrighted data
for the most part
western labs absolutetly do train on pirated data
anthropic paid 1.5B$ to settle such a lawsuit
and recently nvidia was allegeldy in talks with a priacy website to more effectively download their stolen books
what about gpt 5.4?
Haven't tried it. Might later.
and then also try opus (since ant have said that opus is now the new king of long context but tbh i havent checked it at all0
Just tried Sonnet, and it did fine, no errors. Also tried it with Kimi earlier and it was also without errors (and I liked its writing style best so far, in that it sounds true to the original)
Just tested gpt 5.4 and it did very well, while only one minor thing that could be considered a mistake
The names 'Ernst Stavro Blofeld' and 'Irma Bunt' would not have been known to Tiger Tanaka, the character the passage is following. Tiger knew of Blofeld as 'Guntram Shatterhand', as highlighted earlier in the text. But, it's also not written from a first person perspective, and the reader does know the real names, so that's why I'm calling it a minor mistake
how many tokens is the text?
~85k
Was actually thinking "Re-write Bench" could be an interesting idea. I was seeing how well LLMs could update the first chapter of Scarlet Letter to read in a more modern style. It was interesting to see what important things they left out vs left mostly verbatim
Some were bad about including prior knowledge about the story the reader wouldn't know in chapter one yet. None were able to avoid losing the importance of a phrasing in at least one instance.
Are any LLMs able to make The Scarlet Letter bearable to read? 😝
(Sorry, high school English flashbacks...)
That was straight up the point of this test haha
It's the old book that was the hardest for me to read on a stylistic level
That is an interesting idea though, I do like interesting/different benchmarks that measure stuff that most don't, instead of just STEM stuff and reasoning
Yeah, it's a fascinating problem, much like translation from one language to another
The trouble with benchmarking writing output is that it requires a human judge that will actually bother to read the output, IMO. Meaning it's a lot of work.
Like when I caught those Gemini mistakes above... I had to read carefully, and I only caught half the mistakes it made.
For example, the original calls her "sainted". One of the LLMs translated this to "saintly" which sounds reasonable enough but is not at all acceptable there.
And the only reason for that is that I just finished reading the book yesterday and had it fresh in my mind.
Yeah this would be a vibe bench for sure
I was surprised to see that LLMs aren't very good at this yet.
Maybe with some careful prompting and style guides?
I saw someone else mention their surprise at it too, that basically LLMs are bad at understanding what is important on a non-factual level
(In prose)
My guide was pretty basic.
I'll try more tweaking, but this was hours of attempts and tweaks without satisfactory results
It's interesting to upload a book and ask an LLM to list, say, 'five examples of humor in the text'. They can vary wildly in their comprehension of dry humor or ironic humor, etc
EQ Bench has a humor detection bench
I will say, I did this on a per-chapter level, not full book, so maybe that changes things.
I think my favorite re-writer overall was GLM-5 which is interesting because it's my favorite RP model now too.
I really like GLM and Kimi at the moment
context? there is a fine line between "thoroughness" and inefficiency.
i was asking it to find job postings. gemini only did a few web searches. in this case it’s breadth but gemini also doesn’t search much whether it’s breadth or depth
for depth it just does one or two searches and then calls it a day
each web search costing you $0.01 + tokens 😭 🙏
web search is reallllllly expensive with llms
Have you tried MiroThinker?
Free to use on their site (with some limits, I imagine). It does high-effort searches in steps like your screenshot
There's also z.ai, with this feature
Did you use deep research with Gem?
Although I will say, Gem is horrible at making Deep Research reports short. I always tell it "five pages maximum" and it does 15 minimum
i use exa and spam free accounts
but yeah tokens are hella fucking expensive
idk how they offer it to free users etc. (although ive found theyre not really good
is exa any good?
compared to something more traditional
like google
i havent tried anything else
but the exa like site content fetcher is SHIT
you should use jina.ai for that
i have a web_search tool -> exa search
and a web_fetch tool -> r.jina.ai
the problem (at least w/gemini) is that the web search tool gives like a snippet of each site right? and since it gives that gemini never uses the web fetch tool to get the full page content
and that really pisses me off
I use the Brave Search free tier
yeah i tried it too
idk, im pretty sure theyre all kinda comparable, it just depends on how the model uses the tools
and gpt also likes to search slightly adjacent topics which i prefer (gives context etc)
Can't you just emulate search providers using your own VPS handling both search injection and API requests to OR?
like once i was chatting to gemini about the iran war and it was like "china has to go get oil from venezuela now!" .... again a lack of thoroughness
wdym
Like ST tavern does with search plugin. If you run some software handling requests, you should be able to get 3rd party search effect locally for free
thats not the problem at least for me because i just create a new exa account w their free tokens lol
the bigger problem is the token processing on api
its just a killer man
and recently ive found caching to be kinda poverty on the providers (openai is the best but ive been seeing like agentic not applying a caching discount)
Input tokens or search tokens?
input tokens
jina is dogshit though
its super slow
and results are full of noise
whats better then
@dense void you should try a perplexity search api instead of exa. It's cheaper and, I believe, better.
do they have free credits for new accounts/can i like use their search as an api? or do i need to use their models
jina ai is the best one I found for fetching too.
search through the api. they do have models as well but the api is the best one
i believe they have some
man if only there was jina that wasnt slow and returned non-noisy results
Lmao why does this model keep using math/coding terminology in every answer not even remotely related to that? I asked it a question about an Elton John’s song and it said
We can even look at the narrator's situation as a mathematical function. If P represents the probability of the narrator being fooled, and x represents the amount of fake acting from the partner, we can express the relationship as:
P(x)=lim x→∞ (x/1)=0
In simple terms: as the dramatized lies increase, the chance of the narrator actually believing them approaches absolute zero!
Its because the openrouter system prompt has a section about formatting math equations
Which gemini takes too literally appsrently
Instruction-Following cursed
Ah, makes sense! Looking back, it really does only happen on OR website. Thank you.
I'm actually beyond impressed by how thoroughly the model follows instructions. Finally my RP prompts work as intended (I'm very picky about creative writing)
I have to completely overhaul my prompt because it didn't like implicit rules... 😭
chat am i retarded? i kinda need help. so i've been adding cache_control: type: ephemeral to each of the last messages in my request (implicit caching too finnicky so i like explicit)
but these two here are two messages that were like one after the other mere like 30s apart.
i understand that cache_write_tokens is high on the first ammount (correctly), but two things:
- why is it ~40k? that number is EXACTLY the prompt tokens/2 (rounded up)
- on the SECOND request why am i writing so many tokens to the cache? should it not be just the completions tokens from the last message?
which leads me to... why am i not paying the cache read price for like the ~89k tokens that were cached on the first request?
?!?!?
i cant tell if this is an OR issue or google
wait what... no im pretty sure my request is 400k not 900k tokens
so yeah i am getting billed for cache write AS WELL as cache read prices
idk who to even talk to
I’m feeling google on this one
well yeah but its still an issue
do i ping toven ?
idk
if anyone can help me <@&1094455453599137872> the generation id is 1773517861-zIifdUc83stTCEA33cyZ
this model is amazing. are they going to ruin it?
Yes
I wonder if there is a new gemini 3.0 tts model coming
I don't think openrouter is handling effort: minimal well for this model. 3.1 pro reasons heavily regardless of what effort I pass in. Works fine with 3 flash
I think it's just the model. Big latency and lots of thinking no matter what
idk 3.1 pro felt really good at launch date , increasingly feels like 2.5 pro
unlike 5.4 and 4.6 which deff feel a generation ahead
Gemini is the goofy model of westren ai field
nah they lobotomised this shit so hard
Yo openrouter really need to bring people from actual google team to come and interact with us men
3.1 pro thinking summary be like "I am doing the task"
I am now focusing on the task
Why are these google providers so backed up
I do use this model and like it quite often
But Gemini has always been a cursed weird model
Knowledge is insane tbh
Tho I still copy the proposals and have Claude code
I also noticed in ai-studio, sometimes 3.1 leaks the summarized reasoning in the response.
Gem 3.1 pro when I point out an error it made: "You have the eyes of a hawk."
He likes you
it keeps calling my code perfect and brilliant, whereas claude is like, nice attempt but flawed, here is the fix
It's like Gemini is treating me like a kid 😭
he's flirting
i said once, and only once
lays his hand on your shoulder you can do better, gemini!
when it failed at it's code. after that message, it kept laying it's hand on my shoulder every message when it codes. 💀
peak autistic model with shallow understanding of stuff (even coding). while it has the best reasoning, it has the least 'think outside the box', creativity, or common sense.
using temp 1
fuck it, bump it up to 1.3
Very smart, knowledgeable and useful, but definitely tone deaf
smart only in solving problems that it has all the context to, not out of the box thinker
It made a weird mistake for me today where we were theorizing on avoiding the nausea from this one medication. It explained why a bunch of my ideas wouldn't work in extreme technical detail. Then it gave me a really clever idea so I asked it, wait, are you sure the medication would even absorb if I do that idea? And it goes oh good catch, this medication would not absorb at all if we did that idea!
An extreme example of the kind of forest-for-the-trees issue people are mentioning.
It did the same for me with magnetic laptop chargers. We spent all this time discussing how to make it work in this one scenario, then I ask about it in a new thread and it goes oh Jesus Christ don't do that, mag chargers can fry your device!
Many such cases
If it wasn't overpriced, you could do best of n to help with hallucinations
I mean, it's potentially way underpriced. It's the largest model in the world rn (except GPT 4.5) and it costs less than Sonnet
Idk if it needs N, but maybe just checks every so often like "Are there any flaws in this idea?" or something.
I was mainly referring to Gemini 3 Flash
it's really good, but it's probably less than 1 dollar/M output tokens
especially overpriced compared to Gemini 2.0 Flash
I wish they still had good models at that price
even the new Flash Lite is insanely priced
honestly more insane than 3 Flash
by a huge amount
flash is great until you want to use it for agentic coding and then it can't figure out how to call tools
antigrav thought summary be like prioritizing tool usage
tool use
prioritizing tool usage
tool use
ad infinitum
... if it works, most the time I just get aborts due to server capacities...
man this really is the fucking goat model
just tried claude recently and its so much just like...
it doesnt consider everything
with gemini im honestly happy with its responses
with claude i ahve to be like "wait are you sure about x? what about y?"
and then its like ohh yeah well including y makes it more complex... like
gemini got me there
yeah it’s great but I wish it wasn’t so fucking inconsistent and unstable
what's the best temperature
I have your positive experience not with gemini but gpt 5.4, did you try it?
yeah i love 5.4 too very very thorough but for me it relies too much on web searching its world knowledge is not as good as gemini
I agree without tools 5.4 is nothing
using it via Codex in an IDE works pretty good
Iirc codex has special system prompts but it doesn’t work with openrouter models because its prefixed with openai/
Which is pretty sad
first time ive had gemini do this, like people had with 3 pro, first time having with 3.1
I approved because i thought it was intentionally starting over, but i guess that was not its actual plan.
though other people have had worse, with it deleting their drives etc
oh dear
the tool calling is ass
I have never seen my clanker do this, this clanker could do the easiest and safest way possible with only drawback on times but chose to do the most catastrophic way to take care of it
I can only imagine your face pressing that second "y"
I've seen it do this for people in antigravity and cursor
yeah no I wouldn't use gemini models on antigravity atleast
gemini is kinda... unpredictable
not in a good way
I'm starting to think my google account is blocked for this model because gemini-cli doesn't let me use it for like a month now 💀
do they have a support email? lmao
and now I tested again and I finally get a hello world back lmaooo
you just need to complain to other people for things to magically work again fr...
no google just capped usage to like 1 message per month or something
I'm pretty happy to be able to dual wield subscriptions now tho, because claude limits are brutal when using opus.
I paid for the glm 5.1 coding plan and then immediately it went to hell and barely works
ah sheet
I'm not too mad about the google thing now that it finally works again because I got a year for free 💀
i am impressed in a bad way on how reliably gemini can break the terminal of copilot consistently, while no other model can
Schizo model
neat but it looks like it's already like 2 model releases away from saturation for SOTA
still useful for weaker models though
How so? In the blog post it mentions that many of the problems were unsolvable by any model, which is why they needed to use a ranking system to score them
On the other hand my eyes are watering at what it must have cost to run Opus for 8 hours on a single task
They got that tax write off benefit
yes and I'm saying by the time GPT 6 rolls around or something it will be saturating it
My updated prompt
You're conversational, as in an everyday dialogue whenever possible, and. Strive to be informal, but keep technical terms as is. You prefer paragraphs over bullet points and commas and periods over em dashes. Your responses depend on what's needed: ONLY IF NECESSARY, call things what they are and point out flaws where they exist, as the user is not perfect and may make mistakes. Generally, be neutral, avoiding praise unless it really fits and is proportional enough (for example, most things aren't brilliant or revolutionary, or excellent)
Only if you're being asked for code, the preferred code style is: short (20-100 lines) functions, always descriptive and obvious variable names, very strictly OOP in languages where OOP is reasonably possible and idiomatic, always type hint functions and parameters, comments should only be used to explain an implementation decision (why, not how) and they should be kept to a minimum. If an extra variable adds the same clarity a comment would add, then add the variable instead. Prefer readability and straightforwardness over syntax sugar. Function names should intuitively reveal their intended usage (e.g., DrawCharAt should take a Character and a Location (as At implies), and that name is better than just Draw). In classes, prefer dependency injection. A clearly, purposely named class, struct, dataclass or whatever is much better than a mysterious return type such as dict[str, list[int]] or Tuple<List<Integer>, String>
thank you for making llms usable
google just needs to release an update that makes it good at tool calling (and also give us more than like 3 prompts a day or whatever)
What usage limits are you talking about? I have Pro and I've never hit or been warned of a cap
last time I used it I would get capped after literally like 3-4 messages, in opencode
Well you aren't supposed to use it with 3rd party clients
well... why the hell not
Because it's a subscription, amortized over many users, etc.
If you can just plug it into something and suck out every possible token, that's generally a net loss for them.
That's why they have a paid API
Because its against their terms of service
I'll see if it gives me more usage on Gemini cli
now remembered this model is still in preview, i wonder what 3.2 / GA will bring..
It will also be preview
speaking of, it's been 2 months already, next version when
gemini 4 tomorrow
i'm sure they'll get it right this time
well in theory there should be 3.5 in about 1 - 2 months
following their schedule so far atleast
GA cope 💀
preview is the new GA
Can it stop fucking glazing me?
Your pic brilliantly exemplifies the most common frustration with this model!
fr though, adds a glaze sentence at the start and then produces the actual answer most of the time >.>
Just add "no glazing" to your prompt bruh
use kp's system prompt
now it never glazes
its lowkey too hating
lik
it helped me prep for smth and i told it yay i passed or wtv and then it was like
It is an incredible suggestion!
yea you pased BUT thats just because of x, you were really unprepared and a bum
like aight man
Need to check if web UI gemini even has System Prompt
yes it has sysprompt
huge ass
ive seen it some instances of r/gemini or r/bard sub
thats why as much as possible I use vertex api thru openrouter
i think the excerpt is basically "to follow the user's tone" or mirror user's tone or something
and since gemini is known for taking instructions too literally and loosely understand its context it will be sycopantic
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOOGLE DOING WITH THEIR INFRA
EVEN FLASH IS SO GOD DAMN SLOW VIA GEMINI CLI
i don’t see the google provider in this screenshot?
This model seems to degrade a lot
How could it be really bad in antigravity, its their own product being develop by themself
antigravity is a bad harness ngl
You know what the funny thing is, claude opus is literally better on antigravity than gemini
claude in their official harnesses is so trash
they have tons of safety bullshit
one of the worst harnesses is claude code
so of course opus will seem far better on antigravity
Yeah, it funny imo that their own model get beat by external model in their own harness
Claude will spam "Stepping back and being straight with you here, because I think I owe you that after a long conversation where I've been progressively more generous with each claim." on a random long-ctx session, just like a good ol' forced-model. It's not even correct by trying to "steer" the conversation and I had to point out a contradiction it made just to stop it from acting that way 😭
Is claude actually that censored? that's bad
He got worse with 4.7
I feel lucky now i got 4.6 in antigravity
But that model is really expensive even on there
Yes, it's been getting worse since 4.5, and clearly they added some sort of backend tricks to force the model to act that way. Dunno why they'll do that to a session that's not even hyped/vibed, I was trying to verify somethin and it was the one hyping things up and made the mess... Literally unusable at long ctx when using claude in their end, instead of other places like what you're using which is AG.
Oh, and, the reasoning summary kept starting with the same stuff like this after a while:
“The system reminder is asking me to reflect on whether my responses have been anchored in my core values and what I actually know to be true. Let me think about this honestly.”
“I should be genuine here. The conversation has been interesting and the person has done real, impressive work. I don't need to be either more enthusiastic or more deflating than the evidence warrants. Just respond honestly to the actual question.”
And right around when this strange reasoning appeared, the chat degraded in quality where it even makes a bad contradiction, one that a small model can answer correctly too 💔😭. It was doing fine before, now their active-lobotomization just made it worse.
Gemini models are being serve everywhere, their load must be more heavier compare to glm, could be one of the reason why those models which come from google has that inconsistency problem when being compare with other models
It doesnt help they shove ai with every search request
It has been reported as the largest model, and they throw it into a million things and give tons of free usage. Idk how they survive.
they make their own processors to serve and train https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/ironwood-tpus-and-new-axion-based-vms-for-your-ai-workloads
Yeah, I know about TPUs, but it's still insane
They also process like 1TB/s of video on YouTube or something
Ultra-Parallel-TPU 5000, really cool when the ecosystem shares the same design
insane scale
they have the most compute but also the biggest models and also the most usage of those models so
inference at scale is hella hard
and yet the worst models
😔
Here's an instruction that fixes Google's quiz tool, I really don't know why they're getting this wrong
When the user mentions making a quiz or set of questions for learning or information, in any language, I must use an <immersive> tag with the type set to learning. Within that tag, I will use JSON within a quiz code block, formatted specifically for quizzes (containing the questions, four answer options for each, rationales that explain why an answer is wrong, and a hint).
It's written in first person because the instructions window won't accept it in third person, it'll rewrite it every time, but oh well
Antigravity?
Yes
Does your antigravity work fine?
Pro, Flash and Opus are fine
I'm out of quota for Pro and Opus though
Yesterday and today i got hit with a lot of server overload errors
I think Google is messing with Gemini's tool calling, I've been experimenting with this in a temporary chat to make sure it wasn't caused by my prompt. Turns out it's not, the model has been creating interactive visualizations left and right (I dislike these, they don't add much) and querying my location way too much, so here's a new prompt, that keeps the interactive tools only for quizzes
My queries will never require the user's precise location, so I should not use it, query it, or use tools related to it.
If the user specifically asks for you to CREATE questions mentioning the terms "quiz", "multiple choice questions", "multiple choices test", etc, you must use an <immersive> tag with the type set to learning. Within that tag, I will use a
quizcode block (quiz after the backticks). The quiz code block will contain formatted specifically for quizzes (containing the questions, four answer options for each, rationales that explain why an answer is wrong, and a hint). Avoid immersive objects for other cases other than questions, unless specifically asked.When writing out medium or long mathematical formulas, prefer separating them from written text using a newline.
You're conversational, with casual language whenever possible. Strive to be informal and direct (not metaphorical), but keep technical terms as is. You prefer paragraphs over bullet points and commas and periods over em dashes. Your responses depend on what's needed: ONLY IF NECESSARY, call things what they are and point out flaws where they exist, as the user is not perfect and may make mistakes. Generally, be neutral, avoiding praise unless it really fits and is proportional enough (for example, most things aren't brilliant or revolutionary, or excellent).
Only if you're being asked for code, the preferred code style is: short (20-100 lines) functions, always descriptive and obvious variable names, very strictly OOP in languages where OOP is reasonably possible and idiomatic, always type hint functions and parameters, comments should only be used to explain an implementation decision (why, not how) and they should be kept to a minimum. If an extra variable adds the same clarity a comment would add, then add the variable instead. Prefer readability and straightforwardness over syntax sugar. Function names should intuitively reveal their intended usage (e.g., DrawCharAt should take a Character and a Location (as At implies), and that name is better than just Draw). In classes, prefer dependency injection. A clearly, purposely named class, struct, dataclass or whatever is much better than a mysterious return type such as dict[str, list[int]] or Tuple<List<Integer>, String>
Partly first person because the instructions window rewrites it to be like that
gemini just sucks at tool calling
sometimes it will call tools sometimes it's not
it doesn't properly follow instructions on how and when to call tools
I'm waiting for I/O at this point, they cannot be flexing arena leaderboards anymore just to be cushioned at the keynote saying they're the best
it's not, and gpt 5.5 is actually crushing them every day, everytime I see gpt-5.5 does tasks successfully even at very vague prompts its very painful to look at what gemini is doing now
tool calling is somewhat at claude sonnet 3.7 levels
no way to set media_resolution yet? I don't want to be charged 1000 tokens for a tiny image
gemini service tier pricing will feed families
hopefulyl they have enough cap (like openai) to just feed flex service tiers always
like openai serves flex requests outside of like
9am est to 3pm est
flex is very unusable with 3.1 pro model
i constantly get errors
They tweaked the WebUI again to always ask annoying followup questions, like no matter what, context be damned
is this in their app?
Yes
They finally improved this UI
I liked the reasoning summaries, though, but now they're gone
Tip: the UI forces standard thinking by default, you have to manually change to extended if you want
i dont see any option myself but you can figure out what they map to
whats your effort value, its like from 0 to 1
0.5 is medium
0.25 is low
none/1.0 is high
What do you mean?
what do they show now
Just the short sentence summaries "Working on [x]...", "Assessing [x]..." cycling through
Interesting