Simon WillisonFeb 19
Gemini 3.1 Pro produced an excellent pelican riding a bicycle SVG but took over 5 minutes to do it - I'm pretty sure that's just teething problems on launch day though, I got a few error messages about capacity while trying it out. https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/gemini-31-pro/
Gemini 3.1 Pro

The first in the Gemini 3.1 series, priced the same as Gemini 3 Pro ($2/million input, $12/million output under 200,000 tokens, $4/$18 for 200,000 to 1,000,000). That's less than half …

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Show threadSimon WillisonFeb 19
Had to update my blog post after I saw Google's Jeff Dean had posted a video of an SVG animated pelican riding a bicycle, plus a frog on a penny-farthing, a giraffe driving a tiny car, an ostrich on roller skates, a turtle kickflipping a skateboard, and a dachshund driving a stretch limousine
Show threadEugene Meidinger
@simon Oh no they are saturating the benchmarks!
Feb 19 at 7:46pmWeb