Google has announced the release of Gemini 3, its latest and most powerful foundation model, now accessible through the Gemini app and its AI search interface. The launch marks a significant step forward in the AI arms race, arriving just seven months after Gemini 2.5 and closely following major releases from competitors OpenAI and Anthropic.
Setting a New Benchmark in AI Capabilities
Gemini 3 has immediately established itself as a top-tier AI model, shattering existing performance records. On the Humanity’s Last Exam benchmark, which measures general reasoning and expertise, Gemini 3 achieved a score of 37.4, significantly surpassing the previous record of 31.64 held by GPT-5 Pro. The model also claimed the top position on LMArena, a benchmark driven by human user satisfaction.
“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.”
A more advanced version, Gemini 3 Deepthink, is slated for release in the coming weeks for Google AI Ultra subscribers, pending further safety evaluations.
Introducing Google Antigravity for Developers
Alongside the new model, Google introduced Google Antigravity, a Gemini-powered coding interface designed to create an agentic development environment. The tool integrates a prompt window with a command-line interface and a browser view, allowing developers to see the real-time impact of code changes implemented by the AI agent. This streamlines the development process, offering a multi-pane workflow similar to specialized IDEs like Warp or Cursor 2.0.
“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,” explained DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu.
Implications for the MENA Tech Ecosystem
The launch of Gemini 3 offers significant opportunities for the rapidly evolving MENA tech landscape. For the region’s founders and startups, access to a more capable and nuanced AI model can accelerate product development, enhance user experiences, and unlock new efficiencies in operations. The model’s advanced reasoning could be particularly beneficial for sectors like FinTech, EdTech, and HealthTech, where complex problem-solving is critical.
Furthermore, the introduction of Google Antigravity provides MENA’s growing community of 13 million software developers with a powerful new tool to build and iterate on applications faster. As local companies increasingly integrate AI into their workflows, tools that simplify complex coding tasks can lower the barrier to innovation and help regional startups compete on a global scale. The increased accessibility of such frontier models is set to fuel the next wave of AI-native solutions emerging from the MENA region.
About Google
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Source: TechCrunch
