Google Gemini 3 Pro Released
Narrative
Most intelligent model for multimodal understanding. 1501 Elo on LMArena (top leaderboard position). 91.9% GPQA Diamond, 76.2% SWE-bench Verified. 1M token context window, 64K output. State-of-the-art reasoning.
Reality
Topped LMArena leaderboard. Deep Think mode achieves 41% on Humanity's Last Exam vs 37.5% standard. Integrated across all Google products day-one: Search, Gemini app, Vertex AI, AI Studio, Antigravity IDE. 2B monthly users for AI Overviews.
Implication
Reclaimed competitive position after Bard/early Gemini struggles. Multimodal reasoning breakthrough with native "pointing" for zero-shot object detection. Agentic coding capabilities. Unified platform across consumer and enterprise. January 2025 knowledge cutoff.