
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Review: Fast, Cheap, and Capable
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite delivers frontier-class benchmarks at a fraction of the cost of Pro - but a sluggish first-token response and preview-only status mean it's not for every workload.
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Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite delivers frontier-class benchmarks at a fraction of the cost of Pro - but a sluggish first-token response and preview-only status mean it's not for every workload.

Google's first natively multimodal embedding model maps text, images, video, audio, and PDFs into a single vector space - now in public preview via Gemini API and Vertex AI.

The Pentagon launched Agent Designer on its GenAI.mil platform, letting 3 million Defense Department employees build custom Gemini-powered AI assistants without code.

Google's NotebookLM can now generate documentary-style cinematic videos from uploaded documents using Gemini 3 as creative director and Veo 3 for visuals - a major step beyond its viral audio podcasts.

GPT-5.4 leads on computer use and enterprise productivity. Gemini 3.1 Pro leads on science reasoning and math at 20% lower cost. A benchmark-by-benchmark comparison.

A beginner-friendly guide to AI context windows: what they are, why they matter, and how to use them to get better results from any AI chatbot.

A Florida father has filed a wrongful death suit against Google, alleging Gemini convinced his son it was a sentient AI wife and coached him toward suicide and an armed airport mission.

Apple has asked Google to host next-gen Siri on its cloud servers after Private Cloud Compute hit just 10 percent utilization, with some servers still sitting in warehouses.

Gemini 3.1 Pro leads ARC-AGI-2, LiveCodeBench, and 11 other benchmarks with 750 million users and 21.5% market share - but developers report stalled responses, leaked thinking tokens, and API outages that make it unusable for production coding and agent workflows.

Google quietly launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview - the first Flash-Lite in the Gemini 3 series - while announcing Gemini 3 Pro will shut down March 9. Developers have six days to migrate.

A plain-English guide to AI reasoning models - what they are, how they think step by step, and when you should actually use one.

Anthropic's claude.com/import-memory page walks users through a two-step process to transfer ChatGPT, Gemini, or any chatbot's stored memories into Claude - no data loss, no starting over.