Gemini 3 Pro Is Here — And It’s the Smartest AI Google Has Ever Built

If you opened the Gemini app or Google Search this week, you probably noticed something felt different. Sharper. Faster. The AI finally understands you without requiring a 500-word essay prompt. That’s because on November 18, 2025, Google dropped Gemini 3 Pro—the first model in the Gemini 3 family—and it’s not just another incremental bump. Sundar Pichai called it the start of a “new era of intelligence,” and after spending the last few days hammering it with everything from PhD-level physics problems to building full-stack apps in a single sentence, I’m inclined to agree. This thing is scary good.