AI with Google Gemini 🛎️

Google presented its latest Gemini 3 artificial intelligence model on Tuesday, using it to enhance its dedicated app and popular search engine, as the tech giant seeks to gain an advantage in the crowded AI space, facing competition from OpenAI's ChatGPT and Claude  and  browser Edge with CoPilot.

Gemini 3 was touted by its creators as the "best model in the world" for interpreting and processing data from text, images, audio and video, and as enabling a powerful new digital "agent" for creating applications on command.

"This is our most intelligent model," Google chief of AI Koray Kavukçuoğlu said in a briefing with journalists. "We like to think that it will help everyone bring any idea that they have to life."

The new AI model will be available in a Gemini app with more than 650 million monthly users and in Google's Chrome world-leading search engine, where Gemini has more than 2 billion users monthly through its Overviews function, according to Kavukçuoğlu.

"Gemini has set quite a new pace in terms of both releasing the models but also getting them to people faster than ever before," he said. "We have been shipping very rapidly and learning through all that experience."

Caught off guard by ChatGPT and mocked for early blunders with its own generative artificial intelligence efforts, Google has pulled off a dramatic turnaround since the first generation of Gemini was launched in late 2023, becoming a major player in consumer-facing AI.

Just months later, the California-based giant unveiled AI Overviews, a feature integrated into Google Search that caused online ridicule for its sometimes outlandish answers to queries.

That has seen the big tech companies pump tens of billions of dollars in capital expenditure to pay for AI's huge costs, with Wall Street's deep faith in the promise of the AI revolution beginning to show cracks.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged in an interview with the BBC this week that there was "irrationality" behind the boom in artificial intelligence investment, which has fueled a historic rally on the financial markets.

He warned of the "immense" energy requirements of AI and said that people should not "blindly trust" everything AI results tell them, defending the benefit of using other tools like search engines in conjunction with chatbots or overviews.