Google has officially unveiled Gemini 3, its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) model to date, integrating it into its dominant search engine and other widely used online services. This release represents a high-stakes push to deliver trustworthy AI tools capable of both enlightening users and managing complex tasks, following nearly two years after Google first launched its Gemini AI series. The model is designed to compete directly with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which revolutionized AI interaction upon its 2022 debut.

Gemini 3 arrives just seven months after the Gemini 2.5 update, reflecting the rapid development cycle of large language models (LLMs). Tulsee Doshi, Google’s head of product for Gemini, described the model as offering a "massive jump in reasoning," delivering a depth and nuance previously unseen in AI. The model’s prowess has been independently validated: Gemini 3 achieved the highest Humanity’s Last Exam benchmark score on record with 37.4, surpassing GPT-5 Pro’s previous 31.64. It also topped the LMArena leaderboard, a human-led metric evaluating user satisfaction, showcasing superior general reasoning and expertise.

Initially, Gemini 3’s new capabilities—including an AI “thinking” feature within Google Search—will be available to Gemini Pro and Ultra subscribers in the United States, with a global rollout planned. Google executive Koray Kavukcuoglu noted that this feature is intended as an indispensable tool for ideation, providing “smart, concise, and direct” answers. A more research-intensive version, Gemini 3 Deepthink, will later be made available to Ultra subscribers following additional safety testing.

Gemini 3 also powers Google Antigravity, a new coding interface enabling multi-pane, agentic programming akin to advanced IDEs like Warp or Cursor 2.0. This tool combines a ChatGPT-style prompt window, command-line interface, and browser integration, allowing developers to optimize application creation seamlessly across platforms.

The integration of Gemini into Google Search continues the company’s pivot from traditional website rankings toward AI-driven summaries and insights, a strategy that has drawn criticism from publishers concerned about traffic and ad revenue. Despite these concerns, AI Overviews now reach over 2 billion monthly users, while the Gemini app counts roughly 650 million active users.

As AI sophistication grows, concerns about misinformation, manipulation, and potential misuse have intensified. Google executives, including Kavukcuoglu and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, assert that Gemini 3 is equipped with robust guardrails, designed to prevent hallucinations and ensure ethical deployment as a “true thought partner.”

Economically, Gemini 3’s release underscores the escalating capital expenditures in AI, with Alphabet recently raising its AI budget from $75 billion to between $91–93 billion, aligning with similar investments from Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta Platforms. Investor enthusiasm has bolstered Alphabet’s market valuation to approximately $3.4 trillion, though some analysts caution about a potential AI investment bubble affecting the broader tech sector.