Google on Tuesday November 18, released the latest version of its artificial intelligence model Gemini, highlighting that the new capabilities will be immediately available in numerous profit-generating operations including its search engine.
On paper, Gemini 3, which arrives 11 months after the model’s second generation, could keep Google ahead in the AI rivalry. Executives emphasized Gemini 3’s top spot on a number of well-known industry leaderboards that track AI model performance during a press conference.
It is “our most intelligent model,” said to CEO Sundar Pichai in a blog post.
However, as Wall Street looks for indications of an AI bubble, the focus of the AI race has turned more and more from benchmarks to profitable uses of the technology. The financial success of Alphabet’s cloud computing division’s AI products has been a major factor in the company’s stock growth thus far this year.
However, despite the support of top developers like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, new AI model updates have struggled to stand out and have only garnered notice when they fail, as Meta did earlier this year.
Google stressed that, in contrast to previous versions, Gemini 3 was already supporting a few profitable consumer and business products at launch.
Google’s chief AI architect, Koray Kavukcuoglu, told reporters during the briefing, “We think Gemini has set quite a new pace in terms of both releasing the models, but also getting it to people faster than ever before.”
According to Pichai, Google integrated its new model into its search engine from day one for the first time with the release of the Gemini 3. It used to take weeks or months for new Gemini versions to be included into Google’s most popular products.
Gemini 3 capabilities will be available to users on Google’s premium AI subscription plan in AI Mode, a search function that replaces usual online fare with computer-generated responses for complex inquiries.
NEW FUNCTIONS
Google was able to develop a number of new services for consumers as well as corporate clients thanks to improvements made to Gemini 3 in areas like coding and reasoning.
“Gemini Agent,” a service that can handle multi-step operations like booking trips or organizing a user’s email, was introduced by the company. The tool advances Google’s AI head Demis Hassabis’ goal of a “universal assistant” referred to as AlphaAssist.
The app’s vice president, Josh Woodward, showed reporters how Gemini can now produce an on-demand interface with interactive and visual components in response to a query such as “create a Van Gogh gallery with life context for each piece”.
Google unveiled Antigravity, a new software development platform that enables AI agents to autonomously plan and carry out coding jobs, for business clients.
