Overview
- Alphabet shares ended at $292.82, up about 3% after the Gemini 3 launch, with upbeat notes from William Blair and D.A. Davidson.
- Third‑party benchmarks from Artificial Analysis report Gemini 3 Pro outperforming OpenAI’s GPT 5.1 on general intelligence and coding, though usage costs are higher.
- Gemini’s monthly active users reached 650 million, rising from 450 million in July and narrowing the gap with ChatGPT.
- Google introduced Gemini Agent for task automation and launched Google Antigravity, an AI‑powered coding platform available to AI Ultra subscribers.
- Google DeepMind announced a new research lab in Singapore to collaborate across Asia‑Pacific on improving Gemini and applying the models to Google products and Cloud customers.