They say its smarter, faster, and better for vibe coding.<\/b>
\nGoogle announced on Tuesday the release of Gemini 3, the latest version of its flagship large language model, which it calls its smartest model yet, with a whole lot of benchmarks to back it up. The company said that Gemini 3 Pro will be available to users in preview across several Google products starting today, including being deployed in Search, and the \u201cenhanced reasoning model\u201d Gemini 3 Deep Think will start rolling out to Google AI Ultra subscribers after it completes safety testing.
If you follow any AI-obsessed types on social media, you know Gemini 3 has been wildly anticipated by that bunch, who kept whispering about how the model would be a game-changer. Time will tell if it actually achieves that, but Google has a lot of metrics to show how the model is better on paper than previous iterations. The company bragged that it now tops the leaderboard of LMArena, a benchmarking tool used to compare LLMs, dethroning Grok 4.1 Thinking. Google also claims that Gemini 3 Pro demonstrates \u201cPhD-level reasoning\u201d on Humanity\u2019s Last Exam and GPQA Diamond, and set a new record for mathematics performance on MathArena Apex. The scores, of course, climb even higher with Gemini 3 Deep Think.
Does it matter that AI benchmarks are considered unreliable and misleading? Not if you\u2019re on the hype train, it doesn\u2019t.
So Gemini 3 is smarter, which tends to be the primary upgrade that new LLM models bring. But Google is introducing some new capabilities with this model, too. The company announced Google Antigravity, an integrated development environment (IDE) for coding that has a built-in AI agent for maximizing your vibe coding. Basically, it\u2019s a way to more easily hand off coding tasks to AI, which can work across the editor, terminal, and browser based on the user\u2019s commands. While Gemini 3 Pro will be the default, the company said Antigravity also supports Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-OSS agents. Antigravity will be available for testing starting today on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
In addition to the newly launched Antigravity, developers will be able to access Gemini 3 Pro in Google\u2019s Vertex AI and AI Studio. The company also claims Gemini 3\u2019s coding benchmarks are world beaters, too\u2014topping the WebDev Arena leaderboard and setting a new high on Terminal-Bench 2.0. Again, your mileage may vary as to whether those mean anything to you or if they\u2019re just numbers on a test.
The big thing about Gemini 3 is that you\u2019re just not going to be able to avoid it. For the first time, the company is immediately integrating the model into Search. So any time you get an answer from AI Mode, it\u2019ll have run through Gemini 3.
The Gemini app is where the model will primarily live, of course, and users will find what Google calls a \u201cgenerative interface,\u201d which offers two output modes called visual layout and dynamic view. The visual layout is a more traditional experience, pulling in images to the output based on the user\u2019s prompt. The dynamic view sees Gemini quickly whip up a website-style interface with functioning buttons and let you interact with different pages of information.
Google\u2019s Gemini 3 is the latest model to join the game of oneupsmanship from the biggest players in the AI space. Earlier this month, OpenAI dropped its GPT-5.1 model, and on Monday, Elon Musk\u2019s xAI released Grok 4.1. It took all of 24 hours before Google grabbed the spotlight. We\u2019ll see how long the company can hold onto it before it\u2019s usurped by another model.<\/p>\n