Google's Gemini 3 model keeps the AI hype train going – for now

Google's Gemini 3 model keeps the AI hype train going - for now Google's latest model reportedly beats its rivals in several benchmark tests, but issues with reliability mean concerns remain over a possible AI bubble Gemini 3 is Google's latest AI model Google's latest chatbot, Gemini 3, has made significant leaps on a raft of benchmarks designed to measure AI progress, according to the company. These achievements may be enough to allay fears of an AI bubble bursting for the moment, but it is unclear how well these scores translate to real-world capabilities. What's more, persistent factual inaccuracies and hallucinations that have become a hallmark of all large language models show no signs of being ironed out, which could prove problematic for any uses where reliability is vital. AI may blunt our thinking skills - here's what you can do about it In a blog post announcing the new model, Google bosses Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis and Koray Kavukcuoglu write that Gemini 3 has "PhD-level reasoning", a phrase that competitor OpenAI also used when it announced its GPT-5 model . As evidence for this, they list scores on several tests designed to test "graduate-level" knowledge, such as Humanity's Last Exam, a set of 2500 research-level questions from maths, science and the humanities.