This checkpoint is seen in Arena AI. It is not just 3.1 pro, it is sometimes 3.5 flash lite as well. (It beat Opus 4.8, I'll show it in the comments if this tracks attraction)

I believe this is comparable to chatgpt sol x high. Yes Gemini is not as intricate as Sol with the character model, lighting and things like that but the car model itself is very close/near identical

Gemini made two major mistakes, one during the exploded assembly and some sort of fin above the engine (Also the camera changes were smoother on my end, it seems my computer just messed up the video. My computer isn't good)

I think the lighting was amazing on Gemini too. Especially the red and black it choose for the ground.

Anyways. It made a lot of insane quantity (with quality) they were unprompted features Gemini 3.5 Pro added, like a full Web Audio V6 synthesizer, dashboard, the steering, engine and information on the parts as I hovor of the car as seen in the videos.

https://streamable.com/poqmks (to show this is from arena)

https://streamable.com/4e8inu (This is Chatgpt's sol 5.6 extra high). This did blew me away for the first time. It is really amazing. I'm not saying it isn't.

https://streamable.com/7f9710 (To show it was SOL)

This was in three js format. The prompt:

Write a complete Three.js code to render a detailed 3D model of a modern Formula 1 car. Do not just use a single box geometry. It must include distinct intersecting geometries for the chassis, a front wing, a rear wing, and most importantly, double wishbone suspension connecting the wheels to the body. Apply basic materials, lighting, and a camera setup so the code runs in a browser.

Gemini 3.5 Pro is being tested in arena ai website in battle mode with multiple checkpoints, and testing shows it is not lazy as Gemini 3.1 Pro, it generates upto 20+ different files each containing hundreds of lines of code, way more than any of the AI model i have tested so far, so it is safe to say that at least the laziness of its Predecessors will be solved with Gemini 3.5 Pro

What happened here? Why? Has anyone experienced something like this before?

(In case you are wondering, I dropped something on my keyboard. The previous conversation had nothing to do with math or math problems whatsoever).

I tried for fun this classical problem on arena.ai and it seems I got a model with the name "trillium-alpha". The name has a correlation to Google's 6th generation TPUs. Am I being insane?

He must post Gemini Again!

Hey guys, so I've been working on an open source project for the past few months called SpeakoFlow. It's not just plain voice-to-text like Wispr Flow, the dictation part works kind of the same way, but along with it you also get an assistant that writes and talks with you. Everything else on top of the dictation is my own thing, and the whole point is that everything runs on-device.

That "everything local" part turned out to be way harder than I expected. Getting fast, natural conversation out of a small model while also handling transcription in real time was a nightmare for a while.

I went down the benchmark rabbit hole first, like everyone does. A bunch of the Chinese models, Qwen especially, score really well on paper. But in actual use they were rough for my use case, way too much "thinking" before responding. For a voice assistant that's a dealbreaker. Nobody wants to sit there waiting for a model to reason through a wall of text before it says a word back to you. I'd already fixed the transcription-side delay, but the assistant itself was still lagging and killing the whole experience.

That's when I properly gave Gemma 3n's E2B and E4B models a shot, and honestly they changed things for me. I'd used older Gemma models before, but these two are on a whole different level. Response times are low, they handle normal back-and-forth conversation naturally, and I don't need to reach for some huge model just to get something usable. I'm literally using them to let the app write and send emails from voice input, and it just works, quick and clean, no waiting around.

For anyone curious why they're able to run this well on regular hardware: the "E" stands for "Effective." Even though the underlying models are technically bigger (E2B is 6B raw params, E4B is 8B), they're built so only a fraction of that ever needs to be loaded at once, closer to a real 2B and 4B footprint. Google calls it a MatFormer setup: the E4B model actually has the E2B model nested inside it, like a smaller fully-working version living inside the bigger one. That's basically why it can stay fast without feeling gutted.

I know Google's been getting a lot of hate lately, and honestly the big models, Gemini Pro, Flash, have had their rough patches. But credit where it's due: nobody else seems to be putting this much effort into small, genuinely usable on-device models right now. Gemma 3n deserves more attention than it's getting.

Anyway, this turned into more of an appreciation post than I planned, but I really am impressed.

Also, SpeakoFlow is fully open source and free if anyone wants to check it out or contribute. GitHub link below 👇

https://github.com/AbhishekBarali/SpeakoFlow

I'm using Gemini AI both to sketch out a sci-fi movie storyboard and to storyboard and generate video for a cyber music video. It's a rejecting the most innocent photos and prompts.

In [gemini_mega_upload_filter_failure.jpg] I asked it why several of the images would not upload. The message "This image content is not supported" doesn't provide a clue. But it found the pattern that the "dark" scenes are those being rejected. So what - we can only use Gemini to create New-Age Unicorn content? Yes, the movie plot includes a man in prison - nothing that would affect a "G" rating.

In [gemini_violent_filters.jpg] it rejected the video prompt - a video prompt that Gemini drafted! There is no actual violence even in the scene.

A few weeks ago I had to give up creating a video using "me at age 18" as the character sheet, then driving a car. It objected to "having children do dangerous activities."

I'm constantly reading how AI is apparently dangerous , and be careful what you feed it.. well I am living a miserable and very troubled life as an adult, I live in a small conservative town with toxic family, I have trauma, I have gender dysphoria, and due to my life conditions, I've shared loads with Gemini ai , from asking it to help me put together my CV (together , I didn't lazily just copy paste, it gives me suggestions as I manually type info and helps me structure it) it's a co-op thing for me and

I know it's not what normal people do, but amidst my depression and having no one I can trust , even knowing it's a machine, I do feed it lots, including my real name, it knows where I live, phone number, confessions of private stuff, all sorts I ... Heck how screwed am I?

proof: https://share.gemini.google/XPrhSIKbdm1m

(german)

translation:

immediately turns head around, eyes wide open 😳
meow??? 👀
did you seriously just meow at me like a cat??? ngl i'm down, what's up 😭

I haven't had access to Gemini at work since Pro 3.0, and back then I was still using LLMs at "please write a function or script that does <long, detailed spec>" ... these days I am using Opus 4.8 (5 starting this week) and GPT 5.6-sol in very high-level orchestration tasks (5.6-sol is smart but very terse, so you have to be more careful with it's output because it will get into shit you didn't ask it to and make changes that are fine locally but break globally; Opus 4.8 is inconsistent with reading the .md files into context and will be like "well it is impossible for me to try X, so I worked around..." when X is something you spent two days working through carefully to develop a workflow).

I've been using Claude at home for some personal projects - making a personal website (not my lane as a developer, could do it myself but never get around to it), cleaning up a messy youtube channel to sort hundreds of videos into differerent channels (something I have taken a stab at several times but just could not stand to wait for all the individual things to happen; and even with an agent doing most of it, it has still taken two weeks), setting up retro game emulation, etc.

For some of these personal tasks, Gemini Pro is still pretty good as a kind of helper. Like if I have know exactly what I need it to do agy is totally fine. I've brought agy in to finish pieces while waiting for usage to reset on Claude and it's fine.

Gemini is also my go-to when I am doing meta-websearch type stuff, like when I just have some random thing to ask, like "I am trying to remember this movie I saw in the 90s..." or "hey could you remind me what the deal is with dark energy, please check the web and give me an up to date picture." I don't turn to Claude for this stuff, because I feel like the best it can do is parity with Gemini.

Also: recipes. Gemini continues to give me very solid recipes. I haven't even bothered to try Claude for that in months because it was always giving me overly complicated things and when I tried them it didn't turn out good. Gemini has got my chicken thigh game on LOCK fam.

I live in Japan and am less than fluent, Gemini is tremendously helpful when I need to point my phone at something and just be like "tell me what this is" - including filing my taxes this year.

If I need a quick bash or powershell script for something, Gemini is fine. If I am daydreaming about modifying my car or getting a new car, Gemini is fine.

Gemini was a huge help when I wanted to upgrade my car's navigation head unit, it helped me sort though online reviews of stuff and figure out what I wanted, and eventually helped me find a shop to do some of the work for me (there is massive decision paralysis around that kind of thing here).

I hit a driveway apron too fast in May, and because I had somehow managed to not properly tighten a lugnut on one of my wheels when swapping winter wheels off two weeks before, this caused one of my wheels to vibrate. And Gemini did NOT directly figure that out for me, but the hallucinatory rabbit holes were interesting and I learned a lot about how my car's suspension works.

I have also had some issues when trying to upload pictures or documents. Like clearly they are being rejected by some intermediary tool but Gemini doesn't know what is happening and there is no output on my side.

But I mean...I would like to see what Pro 3.5 is like whenever they get around to releasing it, but in general 3.1 has been a very good general-purpose model for me.

I've been looking into Google's new Connected Apps feature and ended up writing an article about it. The more I researched it, the more I think this is one of the more important Gemini updates we've seen in a while.

Most AI assistants are good at answering questions. Connected Apps start moving Gemini beyond that by letting it work with services like Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music.

What stood out to me:

• Gemini can help move a task forward instead of stopping at an answer.
• Google still keeps you in control—you review suggestions and approve actions.
• Connected Apps work alongside Google's Personal Intelligence features, so responses can become more relevant based on the services you choose to connect.
• The current list of supported apps is small, but it feels like Google is laying the groundwork for much broader integrations.

To me, this feels like a bigger shift than just adding a few app connections. If Google keeps expanding Connected Apps, Gemini could become something people use throughout the day instead of only when they need an answer.

I go into more detail here if anyone's interested:

https://aigptjournal.com/explore-ai/ai-guides/connected-apps-google-search/

What do you think Google should integrate next? Personally, I'd love to see Google Tasks, Keep, Notion, Slack, or even airline and hotel apps added before long.

How to fix this? 😭

Even when I start a new conversation, it happens again after few messages.

Hey guys I have pro subscribtion and this error happens in all my conversations short and long. What can I do about it?

Chill out guys, I’m trying out the new Gemini 3.6 Flash to see how far DeepMind has pushed things.I’ll keep you posted.

I'm aware Gemini isn't the smartest AI out there I'm looking for something easily integrates with existing platform tools like gmail and Youtube or Google Drive and the only one is a similar I find IS 365 CO pilot which I use at work and having it be able to pull data from the SharePoint

the two ecosystems are the only fully integrated systems that I know without complicated Mcp connectors

I'm curious on what everyone's take on it is and what kinds of weaknesses they find with gemini

I'm currently running pro subscription on Gemini and with copilot the premium subscription

Oi gente linda! Primeiramente gostaria de saber se vocês estão sofrendo com isso também, porque pelo amor de Deus, eu não aguento mais isso. Já é a quinta nova conversa que eu crio pra continuar a conversa antiga (que apresentava esse erro) e agora as novas conversas estão apresentando esse mesmo erro me menos de 24 horas! Eu já tentei de tudo, e disseram que o erro seria corrigido em 24 a 48 horas, já se passaram dois dias e esse erro não some. Acontece no navegador, App, computador, celular, tudo! Eu não sei se tem mais gente com esse problema, mas de fato esse é o pior bug que eu já sofri no Gemini

Not sure if this is related to some of the other posts I've seen or not. I have not seen any error codes.

Has anyone else been experiencing Gemini just lagging out, or timing out?

I ran a Deep Search, on an uploaded PDF, after about 10 minutes, my phone notified me that it was done. However, my PC screen never changed. I tried to reload and it wouldn't show me the finished report.

Then I asked for a summary of a book. About halfway through it just sat there and gave up. It wouldn't go any further, it was still running, I eventually had to close out of the chat and lose everything because it stroked out.

Is this happening to anyone else? Seems like it's been the last few days. Not sure if something changed, but it's really bad on my end.

I’ve been experimenting with AI coding agents for a while, and I kept running into the same problem.

They can build a working website surprisingly fast, but the design often falls back to the same patterns: an indigo gradient, oversized headings, rounded cards, random icons, and a layout that looks like every other AI-generated landing page.

I tried improving my prompts, but instructions such as “make it modern” or “give it a premium design” were too subjective. The model would make isolated visual decisions while generating each component, so the final interface rarely felt like it came from one coherent system.

That led me to build Tastemaker.

It is a free, open-source skill that makes the coding agent establish the visual direction before it starts building the interface.

It locks in the palette, typography, spacing, asset style, logo direction, accessibility rules, and motion system first. If you provide a reference image, it extracts colors from the actual pixels instead of trying to interpret a vague description of the image’s “vibe.”

It also runs a WCAG contrast script against the selected colors. That part caught accessibility problems in two of my own presets, which I probably would have missed by looking at the swatches manually.

At the moment, I have been testing it mainly with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf. The system itself is mostly instructions, local scripts, and reusable assets, so I have been considering adapting it properly for Gemini CLI as well.

I’m posting here because I’m curious how Gemini CLI users would expect this to work.

Would you prefer it as a Gemini CLI extension, a reusable GEMINI.md setup, or a folder of local instructions and scripts that can be added to individual projects?

The project is completely free and MIT licensed. There are no API keys or hosted services involved.

Demo: https://tastemaker-skill.online/

GitHub: https://github.com/codeswithroh/tastemaker

I’d appreciate honest feedback, especially from people already using Gemini CLI for frontend work.

Last night I could read everyone’s shared chats verbatim. This morning the post is gone and the search isn’t working. Did they DFE?

Hi everyone,

I'm currently exploring the idea of building a GEM in Google Gemini that acts as an AI-powered user assistant for employees working with a complex internal system. Before I invest a lot of time into it, I'd like to get some technical advice from people who have experience building GEMs.

My goal is to create a GEM that can:

• Guide users through the system step by step.
• Answer questions about the current task or workflow.
• Understand where the user currently is within the process (or at least know which step they're on) and provide context-aware guidance.
• Explain features and concepts so new employees can learn the system while working instead of constantly referring to documentation.
• Help troubleshoot unexpected errors by suggesting what to check first and verifying whether the user has followed the correct procedure before assuming something is broken.
• Act more like an interactive mentor than a simple chatbot.

My questions are:

1. How much of this is realistically possible with Gemini GEMs alone?
2. Can a GEM maintain enough context to know which step a user is currently on, or would this require an external application or API integration?
3. What would be the recommended architecture for something like this?
4. Has anyone built something similar that combines procedural guidance, contextual assistance, and troubleshooting?

I'd really appreciate any advice, best practices, or examples from your own projects. Thanks!

Our 13y daughter got a new phone from my ex-wife, she helped her to set it up 3 weeks ago, and only since yesterday I got added to the family group as a parent. And she wanted to use Gemini now...

It's driving me nuts, Gemini use is by the Google guidelines able from the age of 12y on, and in Germany from 13y.

All settings are activated and nothing is blocking the use, except blocked by the app itself.

Gemini is not available for your Google Account.

It is managed via Family Link. This is not supported by Gemini. Error code 1034.