By Lakshmi Varanasi
Publication Date: 2025-11-26 20:42:00
Google’s engineers have been on an AI sprint in recent weeks. Now, with a big launch in the rearview mirror, CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s time to catch up on some sleep.
“I think some folks need some sleep,” Pichai said on the “Google AI: Release Notes” podcast released Wednesday. He added that hopefully he and his teams “get a bit of rest.”
On November 18, Google released its latest AI model, Gemini 3, and the company is now edging toward a $4 trillion market cap. Its stock price has surged nearly 70% this year — including a 12% jump following Gemini 3’s launch.
Gemini 3 has been well received. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said it marks an “insane” jump in reasoning, speed, and multimodal capabilities in a post on X this week. He added that after spending just “2 hours on Gemini 3,” he’s “not going back,” to ChatGPT.
The launch renewed conversations about Google potentially being the new frontrunner in the AI race, after years of ceding the title to…
