The Spring Prompt Blog

Google Gemini 3 Review: The Benchmarks Actually Match the Hype 🤯

So, on Tuesday Google launched Gemini 3. The hype was massive leading up to this, and honestly? It is justified. It is really, really good. Trying to explain how good is difficult without getting bogged down in technical jargon, but the general consensus is pretty clear. Even Sam Altman tweeted his congratulations last night, calling it a "great model." When the head of the competition is being that humble, you know something big just happened. If you watched the GPT 5.1 launch last week, you

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GPT-5.1 First Look: Smarter, Warmer… But Not a Breakthrough

2025’s flagship model season kicked off yesterday with the unexpected arrival of GPT-5.1, with OpenAI getting their release out before Gemini 3. While we’re still waiting for API access (and therefore can’t run proper, high-volume benchmark testing yet), we can take a close look at the release notes, early examples, and some small-scale hands-on tests within ChatGPT. Here are my early impressions - what actually improved, how it compares to the wider market, and whether I think most teams shoul

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How to prepare for Gemini 3 + GPT 5.1

Here we go again: new-flagship season. Google’s Gemini 3 has been peeking through A/B tests in AI Studio and docs watchers have noticed model lifecycle shuffles, while OpenAI is lining up a GPT-5.1 family (base, Reasoning, and Pro). None of this is a formal launch note you can pin your roadmap to—but it’s enough signal to prepare. Treat it like a weather alert rather than a calendar invite.  What should you actually expect? Broadly: bigger context, stronger multimodality (esp. vision + code), a

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