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Gemini Now Makes Music – and That's Not Even the Most Exciting Part of the February Drop

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Google delivers five new features with the Gemini February Drop: music generation with Lyria 3, a significantly stronger Gemini 3.1 Pro, Deep Think for science, and more.

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While half the tech world is debating Anthropic and the Pentagon, Google quietly but significantly upped its game on Thursday. The Gemini February Drop brings five new features – and at least two of them are genuinely interesting.

Lyria 3: AI-Generated Music in 30 Seconds

The feature making the most headlines: Gemini can now generate music. With Lyria 3, you describe what you want to hear via text prompt – style, mood, tempo – and get a 30-second track back. Including automatically generated lyrics and matching cover art.

All generated tracks are watermarked with Google’s SynthID to distinguish AI-generated music from human-made. Whether this works in practice is another question.

Gemini 3.1 Pro: Double the Reasoning Power

For me personally, the more exciting update: Gemini 3.1 Pro doubles the reasoning performance of its predecessor. On the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark – one of the toughest tests for logical reasoning – the model scores 77.1%. That’s more than double Gemini 3 Pro.

On top of that comes Deep Think, a specialized reasoning mode for science and engineering. Available to Google AI Ultra subscribers.

Nano Banana 2: Better Images, Faster

The name sounds silly, but the results are convincing: Nano Banana 2 generates images faster and at higher resolution. Improved text rendering in images, multilingual support, and integration with web search for more accurate results.

Veo 3.1 Templates and Personal Intelligence

Two more features round out the drop: Veo 3.1 gets a template feature for video generation. And with “Personal Intelligence” (beta, US only), Gemini can access your Gmail, Google Photos, and YouTube history to provide more personalized responses.

My Impression

Google does what Google does best: roll things out broadly. Five features at once, from music to reasoning to images. Not all of it will stick, but the improvement in 3.1 Pro is impressive. The reasoning race between the major models will be the defining theme of 2026.

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