Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote “Geminiii” on X, adding two extra i’s to “Gemini,” following the launch of the AI model Gemini 3. xAI CEO Elon Musk responded to this, saying “Congrats.”
Both Pichai and Musk received a lot of responses to this interaction, with some speculating over collaboration between xAI and Google. One user praised Gemini, saying the model was “so impressive that even competitors are tweeting positively about it.”
Gemini 3, which is Google’s latest and most advanced foundational model, was launched on Tuesday. According to TechCrunch, this model — which comes just seven months after the release of Gemini 2.5 — is Google’s most capable LLM yet. The release came less than a week after OpenAI released GPT 5.1, and just two months after Anthropic released Sonnet 4.5.
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“With Gemini 3, we’re seeing this massive jump in reasoning,” said Tulsee Doshi, Google’s head of product for the Gemini model. “It’s responding with a level of depth and nuance that we haven’t seen before.”
In a note, Pichai described this AI model as its “most intelligent,” adding that it combines “all of Gemini’s capabilities together.”
“It’s state-of-the-art in reasoning, built to grasp depth and nuance — whether it’s perceiving the subtle clues in a creative idea, or peeling apart the overlapping layers of a difficult problem. Gemini 3 is also much better at figuring out the context and intent behind your request, so you get what you need with less prompting,” he added.
Gemini 3 DeepThink, a more research-intensive version of the model will also be made available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the coming weeks, once it passes further rounds of safety testing.
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Along with the base model, Google has also released a Gemini-powered coding interface called Google Antigravity, allowing for multi-pane agentic coding similar to agentic IDEs like Warp or Cursor 2.0. Antigravity combines a ChatGPT-style prompt window with a command-line interface and a browser window that can show the impact of the changes made by the coding agent.
“The agent can work with your editor, across your terminal, across your browser to make sure that it helps you build that application in the best way possible,” said DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis also praised Gemini 3. Hassabis said the model is the “best model in the world” for multimodal understanding.