# 📅 ThursdAI - Feb 19 - Gemini 3.1 Pro Drops LIVE, Sonnet 4.6 Closes Gap, OpenClaw Goes to OpenAI

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Podcast: [ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week](https://stenobird.com/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604)
Published: 2026-02-20T01:32:20+00:00
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Hey, it’s Alex, let me catch you up! Since last week, OpenAI convinced OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger to join them, while keeping OpenClaw.. well... open. Anthropic dropped Sonnet 4.6 which nearly outperforms the previous Opus and is much cheaper, Qwen released 3.5 on Chinese New Year’s Eve, while DeepSeek was silent and Elon and XAI folks deployed Grok 4.20 without any benchmarks, and it’s 4 500B models in a trenchcoat? Also, Anthropic updated rules state that it’s breaking ToS to use their plans for anything except Claude Code & Claude SDK (and then clarified that it’s OK? we’re not sure) Then Google decided to drop their Gemini 3.1 Pro preview right at the start of our show, and it’s very nearly the best LLM folks can use right now (though it didn’t pass Nisten’s vibe checks) Also, Google released Lyria 3 for music gen (though only 30 seconds?) and our own Ryan Carson blew up on X again with over 1M views for his Code Factory article, Wolfram did a deep dive into Terminal Bench and .. we have a brand new website: https://thursdai.news 🎉 Great week all in all, let’s dive in! ThursdAI - Subscribe to never feel like you’re behind. Share with your friends if you’re already subscribed! Big Companies & API updates Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro with 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2 ( X , Blog , Announcement ) In a release that surprised no-one, Google decided to drop their latest update to Gemini models, and it’s quite a big update too! We’ve now seen all major labs ship big model updates in the first two months of 2026. With 77.1% on ARC-AGI 2, and 80.6% on SWE-bench verified, Gemini is not complete SOTA across the board but it’s damn near close. The kicker is, it’s VERY competitive on the pricing, with 1M context, $2 / $12 ( But if you look at the trajectory, it’s really notable…

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