By Rashi Shrivastava
Publication Date: 2025-11-25 22:24:00
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet
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When ChatGPT first amazed the world three years ago, Google was caught off guard, struggling to ship AI products that competed with OpenAI and Anthropic. But with the launch of Gemini 3, things have changed. It’s no longer an AI laggard.
The search giant’s latest model beat OpenAI and Anthropic’s best AI in more than a dozen categories like complex reasoning, problem solving and understanding different types of data. It also outperforms GPT-5.1 in scientific knowledge in fields like chemistry, biology, physics and mathematics. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in an internal memo that Google’s recent success could create “temporary economic headwinds” for the company. “I expect the vibes out there to be rough for a bit,” he wrote.
Google is also reportedly in talks to sell its own AI chips (called tensor processing units) to Meta, going head-to-head against chip giant Nvidia, The…
