One of the greatest potentials for tools like Gemini Deep Research lies in their ability to look across vast reams of coverage from both local sources and from across the world in myriad languages to weave together a cohesive narrative about breaking events, identify conflicting details and background context into a single report. This got us wondering tonight, as international media increasingly picked up on the suspected plague outbreak in Russia, what Gemini Deep Research could tell us about it. Here we explore Deep Research with both Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 3.1 Pro Extended Thinking to test whether additional reasoning time and capacity yields better results. These kinds of triage briefings were historically the bread and butter of OSINT and think tank analysts, but here Gemini compiled these two reports in less than a minute, drawing upon a wide range of sources in a variety of languages.
We use just the simplest of prompts:
Tell me everything known about the current suspected plague outbreak in russia.
And here are the two resulting reports: