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.

ZDNET's key takeaway Gemini's Deep Research can now work with your Google files.You can connect to Gmail, Search, Google Drive, and Google Chat.Deep Research will then consult the sources and compile a report.

Gemini Agent is an experimental tool from Google that can explore, plan, and execute complex tasks without needing your help.

See tests where Gemini 3 Pro tops GPT 5.1 and Claude, builds dashboards from prompts, and previews Agent mode, with notes on what still needs

Google has offered several ways of generating and modifying code with Gemini models, but the launch of Gemini 3 adds a new one: Google Antigravity. This is Google’s new agentic development platform—it’s essentially an IDE designed around agentic AI, and it’s available in preview today.

Google Gemini adds access to Google services like Gmail and Drive to Deep Research, making them available to everyone but mobile users.

Gemini has been deeply integrated across Google's ecosystem of software products, and it's hungry for your data. You must only keep it enabled where's it's absolutely necessary and close the doors for the everything else.

Google is facing a lawsuit for allegedly using its Gemini assistant to secretly collect data from Gmail, Chat, and Meet users without their consent.