Last Tuesday, Google released Gemini 3, its latest foundation model, now available through the Gemini app and company's chat interface. Coming just seven months after the Gemini 2.5 release, the new model is Google's most capable LLM yet and an immediate contender for the most capable AI tool on the market. This launch marked the first time that Google had incorporated its new model into its Google Search engine from day one.
Gemini 3 combines all of Gemini's capabilities together and delivers major gains in reasoning. Early evaluations show strong performance improvements across critical benchmarks: GitHub reported that Gemini 3 Pro demonstrated 35% higher accuracy in resolving software engineering challenges than Gemini 2.5 Pro, whilst JetBrains noted a more than 50% improvement in the number of solved coding challenges. In mathematics, Gemini 3 set a new standard for frontier models with 23.4% on MathArena Apex. Google also released a Gemini-powered coding interface called Google Antigravity, allowing for multi-pane agentic coding similar to agentic IDEs like Warp or Cursor 2.0.
The Gemini app surpasses 650 million users per month and 13 million developers have built with Google's generative models. Google emphasised that Gemini 3, unlike past releases, was already underpinning a handful of revenue-generating consumer and enterprise products at launch. The release comes just seven months after Gemini 2.5 and less than a week after OpenAI released GPT 5.1, underscoring the pace at which leading AI companies are advancing their technology.
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Sources:
- https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3/
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/google-launches-gemini-3-with-new-coding-app-and-record-benchmark-scores/
- https://fortune.com/2025/11/19/google-gemini-3-antigravity-ai-explained/
- https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-launches-gemini-3-embeds-160128377.html
