‘Holy shit’: Gemini 3 is winning the AI race — for now

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 …

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