By Alistair Barr, Hugh Langley
Publication Date: 2025-11-19 21:39:00
Business Insider’s amazing Google reporter Hugh Langley has been playing (er… working) with Google’s new Gemini 3 AI service this week.
This is the latest big AI model release, competing with OpenAI‘s GPT-5, xAI‘s Grok 4, and the latest offerings from Anthropic.
Gemini 3 is getting good reviews so far. So good that Google shares hit a record on Wednesday, putting the company’s market value very close to Microsoft.
Here are Hugh’s initial thoughts, after trying Gemini 3 out for a day or so:
“I think where Gemini 3 is most impressive—and where it’s already grabbing attention—is its ability to create new things from whole cloth, thanks to improved multimodal and coding capabilities.”
Gemini 3 is particularly good at designing interactive simulations. That could be interesting for visual learning, building websites and apps, or just having fun, Hugh told me.
He played with this new model in a Google sandbox called AI Studio. It’s like a real sandbox, but…
