“Google … released a new version of its Gemini AI model last month [August 2025] that surpassed OpenAI on industry benchmark tests and sent the search giant’s stock soaring. Gemini’s user base has been climbing since the August release of an image generator, Nano Banana, and Google said monthly active users grew from 450 million in July to 650 million in October” (Berber Jin, 2 Dec 2025).
“Gemini 3, arriving 11 months after the second generation of the model, appears on paper to keep Google at the forefront of the AI race” (Kenrick Cai, 18 Nov 2025).
“Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and Koray Kavukcuoglu said in a blog post that Gemini 3 Pro is less sycophantic, a problem that’s been plaguing AIs and leading to AI psychosis in some…. Gemini 3’s new, more powerful, agentic capabilities will only be available to $250/month Google AI Ultra subscribers at first” (Imad Khan, 18 Nov 2025).
“Gemini 3, which debuted on November 18, now sits at the top of benchmark leaderboards for tasks like text generation, image editing, image processing and turning text into images, putting it ahead of rivals like ChatGPT, xAI’s Grok and Anthropic’s Claude in those categories…. But people tend to use different AI models for different purposes, says Ben Barringer, the global head of technology research at investment firm Quilter Cheviot. For example, models from xAI and Perplexity are ranked higher than Gemini 3 search performance in benchmark tests…. Chips like Google’s won’t replace Nvidia anytime soon. But increased adoption of ASICs, combined with more competition from AMD, could suggest companies are looking to reduce their reliance on Nvidia” (Lisa Eadicicco, 29 Nov 2025).
“Google’s confident, widespread release of Gemini 3, in Pro and ‘Deep Think’ versions, is a long way from its tentative debut of the first Gemini model in December 2023—after which the company faced intense backlash over ‘woke’ outputs and ahistorical or inaccurate images and text, ultimately admitting it had ‘missed the mark'” (Sharon Goldman, 18 Nov 2025).
“Chinese startup DeepSeek released two powerful new AI models that rival GPT-5 and Gemini 3 Pro. The models are open source, cheap to run, and designed for real-world reasoning with built-in tool use…. DeepSeek-V3.2 reportedly matches or beats GPT-5 and Gemini 3 Pro on long-form reasoning, tool use, and dense problem solving, including competitions like the International Mathematical Olympiad and the ICPC World Finals…. Most AI agents struggle to juggle multiple tools because each action resets their internal reasoning. DeepSeek fixed that by preserving memory across tools” (Eric Hal Schwartz, 2 Dec 2025).
“DeepSeek, the China-based AI company, has released two new reasoning-capable AI models, V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale, with the latter outperforming Gemini 3.0 Pro and GPT-5 High in benchmarks, the company said in news release on Monday. At the moment, V3.2 is available on the app and web, whereas V3.2-Speciale can only be accessed via the API” (Imad Khan, 1 Dec 2025).
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