Google Launches Gemini 3: A Multimodal AI Capable of Interpreting Text, Images, Audio, and Video Simultaneously

Google has launched Gemini 3, calling it its smartest and most intelligent AI model to date, designed to compete directly with models like OpenAI's GPT-5

The company claims that it is its most advanced technology and will offer more interactive experiences.

On Tuesday (11/18/2025), Google unveiled the new version of its artificial intelligence model, Gemini 3, which the company describes as its “smartest” tool to date and “the world's best model for multimodal understanding.

The system can process text, images, audio, and video simultaneously and act as a digital “agent” capable of creating on-demand applications, according to Koray Kavukcuoglu, Google's head of artificial intelligence.

The model will be available to users and developers in the United States through the Gemini app, which, according to the company, has 650 million monthly users, while more than two billion users access the tool by default through the search engine. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, highlighted that Gemini 3 captures depth and nuance, noting that AI has evolved in two years “from reading text and images to reading the environment.”

With this launch, Google seeks to compete directly with OpenAI, which recently unveiled GPT-5. The company will offer immediate access to its flagship version, Gemini 3 Pro, while Gemini 3 Deep Think will be coming soon for Google AI Ultra subscribers. AI Mode will also integrate the system, AI Studio, Vertex AI, and the new Google Antigravity agent development platform.

Google stated that Gemini 3 will enable interactive experiences to facilitate learning on any topic and announced that all college students in the United States will receive a free year of Google AI Pro. The company added that Gemini 3 Pro's enhanced coding capabilities will enable more advanced visualizations.

Gemini 3 is our most intelligent model family to date, built on a foundation of state-of-the-art reasoning. It is designed to bring any idea to life by mastering agentic workflows, autonomous coding, and complex multimodal tasks. This guide covers the key features of the Gemini 3 model family and guides in maximizing its capabilities.

Gemini 3 surpasses 2.5 Pro at coding, mastering complex zero-shot tasks, and serves as a new foundation of intelligence for what's possible with an agentic coding model. You can use Gemini 3 to learn, build, and plan anything with improved reasoning and tool use.

Gemini 3 Pro outperforms previous models in reasoning, multimodality, and coding benchmarks. Gemini 3 Deep Think mode is an enhanced reasoning capability within the Gemini 3 model family, specifically designed to tackle the most complex, multi-step, and high-ambiguity analytical problems. It pushes the boundaries of intelligence even further for complex challenges. It makes Gemini more detailed, creative, and thoughtful.

What Experts Say

Although experts highlight Gemini 3 as advanced reasoning and multimodal understanding, which lead to stronger benchmark performance, they also point out several potential issues. These include hallucinations and unreliability, ethical risks, concerns about potential performance variability under heavy loads, and higher costs for API users.