I’ve been glued to my screen for the last 48 hours.

If you’ve been following the "AI Model Wars," you know the hierarchy has been pretty static for a while. You had the leader, and you had the chasers.

But this week? The board got flipped.

Google just dropped Gemini 3, and I have to be honest it’s a beast.

I tested it on a few coding workflows that usually trip up my other tools, and the new "Deep Think" reasoning didn’t just handle them; it crushed them. It feels different. It feels dense.

Of course, OpenAI didn't sit still. They immediately countered with GPT-5.1.

I’ve been jumping back and forth between the two all morning, and here is my raw take:

We are officially done with the "Chatbot Era."

If you’re still using these tools just to write emails or summarize meetings, you are driving a Ferrari in a school zone. The real magic right now isn't in generation it's in reasoning.

My Verdict: For creative writing and conversation, GPT-5.1 still feels "warmer." But for hard logic, strategy, and coding? Gemini 3 is currently winning the ground war.

Here is what I’m doing this week: I’m taking the messy, complex problems I usually procrastinate on strategy docs, deep data analysis and I’m throwing them at Gemini 3 with a simple prompt:

The answers I'm getting are genuinely making me rethink my own work.

Try it out. Pick a hard problem today and see which model gives you the better leverage. Then hit reply and let me know who won I’m curious to see if you’re seeing the same things I am.

Talk soon,

Darshan Ahirrao,Velocity