Google launches 'most intelligent' Gemini 3 model; check features, availability, other details

Google Gemini 3: Alphabet's Google, on Tuesday, launched the latest version of its artificial intelligence model Gemini, which will be immediately available globally across its several profit-generating products, including the Search engine, AI Studio and Gemini App.Arriving 11 months after the second generation of the model, Gemini 3 appears on paper to keep Google at the forefront of the AI race, according to Reuters. During a press briefing, executives highlighted Gemini 3's lead position on several popular industry leader boards that measure AI model performance.The tech giant also launched an agentic development platform, Google Antigravity.CEO Sundar Pichai described it as "our most intelligent model," in a company blog post. Google, meanwhile, termed the Gemini 3 launch as a big step towards artificial general intelligence (AGI).Gemini, which the company launched first two years ago, now has 650 million monthly active users and 13 million developers are building on it, Google and Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai said.Google emphasized that Gemini 3, unlike past releases, was already underpinning a handful of revenue-generating consumer and enterprise products at launch."We think Gemini has set quite a new pace in terms of both releasing the models, but also getting it to people faster than ever before," Koray Kavukcuoglu, Google's chief AI architect, told reporters during the briefing.Pichai said the Gemini 3 launch marked the first time that Google had incorporated its new model into its search engine from day one. In the past, new versions of Gemini took weeks or months to embed into Google's most highly used products.Paying users of Google's premium AI subscription plan will have access to Gemini 3 capabilities in AI Mode, a search feature that dispenses with the web's standard fare in favor of computer-generated answers for complicated queries.Gemini 3: Features, availability Gemini 3 will be available across products, with more complex reasoning capabilities and across all countries, including India. Gemini Pro and Ultra users will be able to access with higher limits.Improvements to Gemini 3 in domains such as coding and reasoning enabled Google to build out a set of new features, both for consumers and enterprise customers.The company debuted "Gemini Agent," a feature that can complete multi-step tasks, such as organizing a user's inbox or booking travel arrangements. The tool brings Google closer to its AI chief Demis Hassabis' vision for a "universal assistant" that has been referred to internally as AlphaAssist, as Reuters previously reported.Google also redesigned the Gemini app to return answers reminiscent of a full-fledged website, a further blow to content publishers who rely on web traffic to generate revenue.Josh Woodward, the vice president in charge of the app, demonstrated to reporters how Gemini can now respond to a query like "create a Van Gogh gallery with life context for each piece" by generating an on-demand interface with visual and interactive elements.For business customers, Google previewed a new product called Antigravity, a new software development platform where AI agents can plan and execute coding tasks on their own.Reliance Jio user can access Pro features With its latest partnership with Reliance Jio, users will be able to access Pro features. Google is also seeing increasing traction for its products such as Nano Banana in India.Chris Struhar, vice-president, product, Gemini App, said with partnership with Jio and free access to Gemini suite for students, the firm is seeing how students are using Gemini for homework.Gemini 3 is Google’s most intelligent model for multimodal understanding, agentic capabilities and vibe coding, Koray Kavukcuoglu, chief technology officer and chief AI architect at Google DeepMind, said at a global media briefing held virtually.