🤖 Google Launches Gemini 3

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Hi AI Futurists,

Google’s new Gemini 3 release is pushing everyday AI use into a higher gear, from richer Search answers to tools that can plan, code, and reason with far less hand-holding. It signals a shift toward AI that feels more conversational and more capable across nearly any task. Let’s take a look.

Here’s our agenda.

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Lex Sokolin

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Google has launched Gemini 3, its most capable AI model so far, and it’s already rolling out across Search, developer tools, and the Gemini app. This release marks a clear shift from AI as a passive tool to something closer to an intelligent collaborator. Whether you're coding, researching, planning a project, or just looking something up, Gemini 3 is built to help you carry it through. It's also the first time a major new model is powering Google Search from day one, introducing dynamic, on-the-fly layouts and interactive simulations that respond to your query in real time.

The model delivers major improvements in reasoning, context awareness, and multimodal understanding. Gemini 3 Pro currently leads most public benchmarks, beating GPT-4 on LMArena and posting strong scores on factual QA, advanced math, and video comprehension. The new Deep Think mode pushes performance even further, especially on complex tasks like long-term planning and novel problem solving. DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis says the goal is a true “thought partner,” not just a chatbot. Google is also rolling out Antigravity, a new developer platform where Gemini agents can plan, code, and test across browser, terminal, and editor environments.

This model isn't just about better outputs. It's about reducing friction between an idea and action. As AI becomes more capable of understanding intent and handling entire workflows, the bottleneck starts to shift from skill to clarity. If you can think it through, Gemini might be able to build it.

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