Overview
- Nano Banana Pro is powering viral, practical workflows such as converting academic papers into comics through NotebookLM, alongside autogenerated fitness posters, rich infographics and film-style storyboards.
- Andrej Karpathy showed the model solving physics and chemistry tests in realistic handwriting that can mimic a user's script when prompted, with third‑party checks noting essentially correct answers and minor notation or spelling errors.
- Early testing reports indicate Gemini 3 Pro outperforming GPT‑5.1 and Claude 4.5 on multimodal and reasoning benchmarks including MMMU‑Pro, ScreenSpot‑Pro, Video‑MMMU, ARC‑AGI‑2, AIME 2025 and MathArena.
- Market coverage says Alphabet shares reached record highs and briefly topped Microsoft's valuation following the twin releases.
- The White House announced the Genesis Plan by executive order, directing the Energy Department to build an AI experimentation platform, as industry signals include Foxconn's Q3 AI‑server revenue surpassing iPhone‑related sales and Ubtech securing a 264 million yuan humanoid‑robot order slated to begin delivery in December.