Overview
- Google launched Gemini 3 and said it is embedding the multimodal model directly into Search and other flagship products.
- Alphabet stock set fresh highs after the debut, rising as much as 6.9% on Wednesday as call-option volume topped 376,000 by late morning in New York.
- Initial benchmarks and analyst checks report Gemini 3 Pro outperforming OpenAI’s GPT‑5.1 on several metrics, with some calling it the current state of the art.
- Google reported Gemini usage climbing to about 650 million monthly active users, up from roughly 450 million in July.
- New rollouts include Gemini Agent for task completion and the Antigravity coding platform, while DeepMind expanded research with a new lab in Singapore and analysts raised targets alongside Berkshire Hathaway’s disclosed $4.3 billion stake.