I tried Gemini (3.1 Pro) for creative writing a couple days ago and was absolutely blown away. I have not seen one this good since ChatGPT's initial launch day, before the rounds of lobotomization and RLHF.

I am not super sure what makes it so good, but it seems like it's a good option to try if you have access and want to see how the frontier models are doing.

Maybe this is why Apple chose that family to help train Siri AI. (Siri AI is not a fine-tuned Gemini)