
Gemini 3 Deep Think Review: Google's Reasoning Powerhouse Tested
Google's Gemini 3 Deep Think trades speed for depth, delivering record-breaking reasoning benchmarks - but at a steep price.
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Google's Gemini 3 Deep Think trades speed for depth, delivering record-breaking reasoning benchmarks - but at a steep price.

Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model with native multimodal support and a hybrid attention architecture that runs 8x faster than its predecessor. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro with 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, more than doubling the reasoning capability of its predecessor and beating Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 on most benchmarks.

A new benchmark of 84 real-world tasks across 11 domains proves that small AI models armed with human-written step-by-step guides outperform frontier models running blind. The catch: models cannot write these guides themselves.

Anthropic's mid-tier model delivers 98% of Opus performance at one-fifth the cost, with a 1M token context window and near-parity on coding and computer use benchmarks.

Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro with dramatically improved reasoning, topping Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 on most industry benchmarks.

Three papers that matter this week: a brutal benchmark for AI research agents, a feature-space approach to training data diversity, and trace rewriting to stop model theft.

Rankings of the best open source LLMs you can run on home hardware - RTX 4090, RTX 3090, Apple M3/M4 Max - organized by VRAM tier with real-world token/s benchmarks and quality scores.

A data-driven look at benchmark contamination, leaderboard gaming, and whether public AI benchmarks can still tell us anything useful about model capabilities.

Rankings of the best AI models for long-context tasks, measuring retrieval accuracy, reasoning, and comprehension across massive context windows from 128K to 10M tokens.

Comprehensive ranking of the top large language models in February 2026, combining multiple benchmarks including reasoning, coding, knowledge, and multimodal capabilities.

Anthropic's new mid-tier model matches Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks, ships a million-token context window, and keeps the same $3/$15 pricing as its predecessor.