Simon Willison’s Weblog

2nd April 2026

Release llm-gemini 0.30 — LLM plugin to access Google's Gemini family of models

New models gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview, gemma-4-26b-a4b-it and gemma-4-31b-it. See my notes on Gemma 4.

Posted 2nd April 2026 at 6:25 pm

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