n Tuesday, Google took what it calls “another big step on the path toward AGI” and unveiled Gemini 3, the latest version of its flagship frontier model.
The model family is Google’s most advanced release to date, demonstrating state-of-the-art reasoning, vision and spatial understanding. The model outperforms previous Gemini generations and competitors’ models across major AI benchmarks, including academic reasoning, multimodal understanding, agentic tool use and long context performance.
Along with debuting the model itself, Google announced a slew of other features powered by Gemini 3, including:
- Google Antigravity, an AI coding platform that uses agents as an “active partner” rather than a tool;
- Gemini 3 Deep Think, a research-focused version of the model featuring enhanced reasoning, Gemini 3 Pro, combining reasoning with multimodal capabilities and bringing a “new level of depth and nuance to every interaction,” both available in preview before going to Google AI Ultra subscribers;
- And AI Mode is available in Search using Gemini 3, bringing new generative UI experiences such as immersive layouts and interactive tools.
Google also touted considerable monthly user numbers, claiming 2 billion AI Overviews users, 650 million Gemini app users, and 13 million developers using its generative models.
“Ultimately, this is a key component of what we see as an eventual AGI system,” Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, told journalist Alex Heath in an interview for the Sources newsletter. “It needs to do everything really well.”
Gemini 3 follows an influx of model releases from major providers this fall, including OpenAI’s GPT-5.1, xAI’s Grok 4.1, and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5. But as these models get bigger and better in the pursuit of AGI, so are the concerns that the market is nearing an inflection point, as rumblings of an AI bubble grow louder.
It’s getting to a point where tech leaders themselves can’t ignore it: Google CEO Sundar Pichai told the BBC in an interview published Tuesday that, though the impact of AI will be profound, similar to the adoption of the Internet despite the dotcom crash in the late 90s, the astonishing trillion-dollar investment in the market has “elements of irrationality.”