Google Launches Gemini 3 AI Model in Major Upgrade Push
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The company rolled out the model nearly eight months after introducing Gemini 2.5 and 11 months following Gemini 2.0, as part of an ongoing effort to enhance AI capabilities amid competition from rivals like OpenAI.
Gemini 3 builds on previous iterations by offering improved reasoning across text, images, video, audio, and code, with a one-million-token context window and leading performance in multilingual tasks.
The Gemini series began nearly two years ago as one of Google's largest scientific and product initiatives, starting with Gemini 1, which brought advances in native multimodality and long context processing.
Gemini 2 followed by establishing foundations for agentic functions and advanced reasoning, while Gemini 2.5 Pro held top positions on benchmarks like LMArena for over six months.
Now, Gemini 3 outperforms its predecessors on major AI evaluations, achieving 81 percent on MMMU-Pro for multimodal understanding and 87.6 percent on Video-MMMU.
It also excels in coding tasks, topping the WebDev Arena leaderboard with 1487 Elo and scoring 76.2% on SWE-bench Verified.
Sundar Pichai, Google and Alphabet CEO, said:
"Nearly two years ago we kicked off the Gemini era, one of our biggest scientific and product endeavors ever undertaken as a company. Since then, it’s been incredible to see how much people love it. AI Overviews now have 2 billion users every month. The Gemini app surpasses 650 million users per month, more than 70% of our Cloud customers use our AI, 13 million developers have built with our generative models, and that is just a snippet of the impact we’re seeing."
Pichai added, "It’s amazing to think that in just two years, AI has evolved from simply reading text and images to reading the room."
The newly updated model requires "less prompting" for results and handles complex questions more effectively, according to Pichai, who noted it is "much better at figuring out the context and intent behind your request, so you get what you need with less prompting."
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, and Koray Kavukcuoglu, CTO of Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect, stated:
"Today we’re taking another big step on the path toward AGI and releasing Gemini 3. It’s the best model in the world for multimodal understanding and our most powerful agentic and vibe coding model yet, delivering richer visualizations and deeper interactivity, all built on a foundation of state-of-the-art reasoning."
Hassabis further explained that the system trades "cliché and flattery for genuine insight, telling you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear."
The rollout includes Gemini 3 Pro in preview for the Gemini app, available to all users, and for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in AI Mode within Search. Developers can access it through the Gemini API in AI Studio, while enterprises gain entry via Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise.
A new Deep Think mode, which enhances reasoning, is undergoing safety testing before being released to Ultra subscribers in the coming weeks.
The model integrates into tools like Google Antigravity, an agentic development platform, and supports third-party platforms including Cursor and GitHub.
Gemini 3 enables generative interfaces in Search, such as image-based explanations or interactive tools like loan calculators and physics simulations.
It achieves 72 percent accuracy in produced information and aids in organizing email, analyzing business documents, and combining graphics with text for queries on topics like travel or art.
Josh Woodward, Google Labs VP, called it the "best vibe coding model ever."
The release follows OpenAI's introduction of GPT-5 in August and a recent update making it "warmer, more intelligent, and better at following your instructions" and "faster on simple tasks, more persistent on complex ones."
Mike O’Rourke, chief market strategist at JonesTrading, said:
“We’re in a situation where, because of Google’s size and space and their first-mover advantage in search, Gemini could take market share and cause OpenAI and others to fall behind.”
Surely, Google's Gemini 3 is going to change the world for its rivals like ChatGPT and Grok.
