MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. – Google’s Gemini 3 was released last week to widespread fanfare. The company called the model a “new era of intelligence,” integrating it into Google Search on day one for the first time. It’s blown past OpenAI and other competitors’ products on a range of benchmarks and is topping the charts on LMArena, a crowdsourced AI evaluation platform that’s essentially the Billboard Hot 100 of AI model ranking.

Within 24 hours of its launch, more than one million users tried Gemini 3 in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, per Google. “From a day one adoption standpoint, [it’s] the best we’ve seen from any of our model releases,” Google DeepMind’s Logan Kilpatrick, who is product lead for Google’s AI Studio and the Gemini API, told The Verge .

Even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

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