Gemma 1 vs GPT-5.1
Google Gemma 1 | OpenAI GPT-5.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | OpenAI | |
| Release date | Feb 21 2024 | Nov 12 2025 |
| Access | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | — | 25% |
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | — | 76.3% |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | — | 88.1% |
Multimodal MMMUTests the AI on understanding images and text together across many college subjects. Higher is better. | — | 76% |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Gemma 1 shipped 630 days before GPT-5.1 | |
Which is better: Gemma 1 or GPT-5.1?
Gemma 1 and GPT-5.1 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Gemma 1 shipped 630 days before GPT-5.1, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Gemma 1 is open weight, while GPT-5.1 is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Gemma 1 and GPT-5.1 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Gemma 1 was released by Google on Feb 21 2024.
GPT-5.1 was released by OpenAI on Nov 12 2025.
Gemma 1 is an open weight model released by Google. GPT-5.1 is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.
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