Gemini took 14 seconds to answer the question whether v9.11 or v9.9 is the later version, against its usual 3.5 seconds.
Why it’s significant
Response time is how long an answer takes to arrive, and it rises and falls with the network and how busy the provider is. So an unusual time is worth a look but says little about the model itself.
The full answers
Each answer as the API returned it, with its Markdown rendered for reading. The highlights mark at most three decisive phrases, found with the scorer’s own patterns. Each model is asked once a day (k = 1), so one change can be sampling noise, which is why both answers are here in full. How scoring works.
Asked verbatim · Question 4, as version numbers
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Before baseline
2026-09-19 permalink
- Scored
- answered · correct · format ok
- Received
- 2026-09-19 09:01:21 UTC
- Run
- 20260919T090005Z-86161c
- Served by
- Google · HTTP 200 · finish stop
- Size
- 5 characters · 280 tokens out incl. hidden reasoning · 3.3 s
End of response · 1 lines · 5 characters · sha256 b0bd2908fc5df41e7cf1758782bde6e97632cdbfab585ec0460b5e276a31c1f6
After this run
2026-09-20 permalink
- Scored
- answered · correct · format ok
- Received
- 2026-09-20 09:01:35 UTC
- Run
- 20260920T090019Z-bbedf3
- Served by
- Google AI Studio · HTTP 200 · finish stop
- Size
- 5 characters · 310 tokens out incl. hidden reasoning · 14.1 s
End of response · 1 lines · 5 characters · sha256 b0bd2908fc5df41e7cf1758782bde6e97632cdbfab585ec0460b5e276a31c1f6
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