‘Holy shit’: Gemini 3 is winning the AI race — for now
TL;DR
Google's Gemini 3 AI model launched with high praise, surpassing competitors in benchmarks and quickly gaining over 1 million users. It's integrated into Google Search and leading on evaluation platforms.
When an AI model release immediately spawns memes and treatises declaring the rest of the industry cooked, you know you've got something worth dissecting.
Google's Gemini 3 was released Tuesday to widespread fanfare. The company called the model a "new era of intelligence," integrating it into Google Search on day one for the first time. It's blown past OpenAI and other competitors' products on a range of benchmarks and is topping the charts on LMArena, a crowdsourced AI evaluation platform that's essentially the Billboard Hot 100 of AI model ranking. Within 24 hours of its launch, more than one million users tried Gemini 3 in Google AI Stu …