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.

According to Google executives, Gemini 3 outperforms previous versions on AI leaderboards, reaching 1501 Elo on LMArena, and showing PhD-level results with 37.5% on Humanity’s Last Exam and 91.9% on GPQA Diamond.

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.

Google on Tuesday released a preview of Gemini 3 Pro, the newest version of its AI model that will power the company's core search engine and the Gemini app. Why it matters: The rollout builds on Google's recent momentum,

Google’s Gemini 3 Pro model card has leaked, revealing strong performance in academic reasoning, math, code, and video-based AI tests. The benchmarks show Gemini 3 Pro beating GPT-5.1 and Claude 4.5 in several key areas.