Google clearly has high hopes for Gemini 3 in the coding domain. Along with the new model, the company has released Google Antigravity, a new agentic development platform that will likely compete with fast-growing startup Cursor, which sells its own AI-powered integrated development environment (IDE).

After more than a month of rumors and feverish speculation — including Polymarket wagering on the release date — Google today unveiled Gemini 3, its newest proprietary frontier model family and the company’s most comprehensive AI release since the Gemini line debuted in 2023.

Gemini 3 is skilled at reasoning, generating video, and writing code. Amid talk of an AI bubble, Google notes the new model could help increase search revenue too.

On Tuesday, Google finally launched Gemini 3, which the company claims is the "best model in the world for multimodal understanding and our most powerful agentic and vibe coding model yet." The claim is supported by benchmark data, crowd-sourced Arena results, and more advanced use cases that the chatbot has not previously been able to tackle.

The newly launched model is billed as being more context-aware than ever. Google today unveiled Gemini 3, a major upgrade to its flagship multimodal model. The firm says the new model is better at reasoning, has more fluid multimodal capabilities (the ...