Simon Willison’s Weblog

7th May 2026

Release llm-gemini 0.31 — LLM plugin to access Google's Gemini family of models

gemini-3.1-flash-lite is no longer a preview.

Here's my write-up of the Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview model back in March. I don't believe this new non-preview model has changed since then.

Posted 7th May 2026 at 7:57 pm

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