Benchmarks show Google's Gemini 3 handily beating OpenAI's latest GPT-5.1 model, but there are still reasons to use ChatGPT.

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).

Watch Google Gemini 3.0 Pro plan, code, and turn a sketch into a working browser game, with strong results in reasoning, OCR, and screen tasks

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.

Google cofounder Larry Page overtook Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to become the world’s third-wealthiest person Wednesday, as Alphabet’s stock surged by nearly 6% in the wake of strong third quarter earnings and the release of Google’s Gemini 3 AI model.

Alphabet stock was rising with Wall Street and technology analysts generally positive about its new Gemini 3 artificial-intelligence model.

Google released its Gemini 3 AI model today after weeks of social media hype, vague posting, and wink emojis. An early-morning leak of the Pro version’s model card—which outlines key details about the system and its benchmark performance—had developers posting on X as though Santa had arrived early.

Google released Gemini 3, its latest and most advanced foundation model, to be made immediately available through the Gemini app and AI search interface.