Pichai: Gemma 4 is based on Gemini 3 architecture
“Of Gemma four is based on Gemini three architecture.”
Yegge: Open source models will match Gemini 3 by next summer
“From what I've heard, they, they're seven months behind, and that, that gap is gradually narrowing. The frontier models, which means OSS models will be as good as Gemini three next summer.”
Altman: Google's Gemini 3 Exposed OpenAI Weaknesses But Failed to Hinder Growth
“Gemini three has not, or at least has not so far had the impact we were worried it might, but it did in the same way that deep seek did identify some weaknesses in our product offering and strategy.”
Bourgeau: Gemini 3 progress came from small contributions, not one breakthrough
“In my experience, there's maybe one or two of those things that make a larger difference than other things, but it's really a combination of many, many changes and many, many things from a very large team that actually makes Gemini three so much better than th…”
Bourgeau: Google DeepMind separates AI development into dedicated pre- and post-training teams
“At a super high level so we have a pre-training team, a post-training team. On the pre-training side, we have people working on the model, on the data, the infrastructure, evals as well, very important.”
Bourgeau: Gemini 3's architecture hasn't changed much from Gemini 2.5
“At the high level, I don't think the architecture has changed that much compared to the previous one. It's more of what I was saying before, where a few different things come together to gather, give a large, large improvement.”
Gemini 3 proved that pre-training scaling laws remain intact
“Well, I do think Gemini three was very important because it showed us that scaling laws for pre-training are intact.”
AI progress would have completely stalled in 2024 without reasoning models
“Had reasoning not come along, there would have been no AI progress from mid 24 Through, essentially, Gemini three. There would have been none. Everything would have stalled.”
Chen: OpenAI has internal models matching Gemini 3 and better successors coming
“Just looking purely at the benchmarks, you know, we actually felt quite confident you know, we have models internally that perform at the level of Gemini three, and we're pretty confident that we will release them soon, and we can release successor models that…”
Isenberg: Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 reach new vibe coding stratosphere
“Anecdotally, it does feel like we've, with Opus, 4.5 and Gemini three, it does feel like we've entered a new stratosphere of vibe coding.”
Gemini 3 thinking queries match GPT-5 Pro reliability with less reasoning
“I feel like the level of confidence in the brand makes me feel that a Gemini three thinking query that does maybe less reasoning Then a GPT five pro query will be at the same level of reliability.”
Kantrowitz: Gemini 3 crushed the ARC-AGI benchmark and topped Chatbot Arena
“Gemini three smashes the benchmarks crushed on the Arc AGI test. It's currently at the top of the LM arena leaderboards”
Roy: OpenAI GPT-5 flopped and is losing the buzz cycle to Gemini
“OpenAI GPT five was a flop in terms of actually meeting the hype and Gemini three had people more excited than I've seen them in a long time around a model launch. So that's open AI's game and they are losing at it right now.”
Roy: Google's vast distribution makes Gemini 3 a lethal threat to OpenAI
“What makes this so scary for ChatGPT is Google's distribution, because Claude going consumer is, like, non-existent when someone has to sign up, find about it, it's a whole marketing exercise, but If Gemini three fully replaces ChatGPT or is as good, that is r…”
Shlomo: Developers will stick with Claude Code over superior models
“Like, even if now Gemini three comes out and it's a better model than Cloud and so on, then still there's gonna be a huge number of people staying with CloudCode because they're used to it and they built some things up the stack.”
Kilpatrick: Gemini 3 is live in apps, AI Studio, and APIs
“It's available across a bunch of Google services like the Gemini app. If you're sort of looking for an assistant or the API for developers and enterprises, if you want to build this experience or build Gemini three into your own products.”