"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 ChatGPT maker OpenAI. Pichai said Google for years has quietly been laying down the foundation for a long-term AI strategy. "In 2016, I wanted the whole company to be AI-first," Pichai said."
Google released Gemini 3 on November 18 after an intensive internal AI sprint. The launch propelled the company's stock and moved market value toward a $4 trillion valuation, including a double-digit jump immediately after release. Gemini 3 earned strong praise for advances in reasoning, speed, and multimodal capabilities, prompting some users to prefer it over competing models. The company built the technical foundation for these models through initiatives since 2012, including Google Brain, the DeepMind acquisition, AlphaGo developments, and custom tensor processing units used to train Gemini, reflecting an AI-first strategy initiated in 2016.
Read at Business Insider
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]