Hot take on Google’s Gemini 3
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Claims from this post (2)
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Assessment: SupportedSaid
“Google announced their big new state-of-the-art model yesterday, Gemini 3, on most measures better than any other model out there.”
What we tested: Gemini 3 is better than any other model on most measures.
What happened: Google reports that Gemini 3 Pro ranked first on LMArena and posted top scores on major reasoning benchmarks at launch. (Google, )
Assessment: SupportedSaid
“But biggest news was buried in the methods: Google got better results than it is competitors without using Nvidia GPUs, relying solely on their own TPUs:”
What we tested: Google achieved better results than competitors with Gemini 3 without Nvidia GPUs, using only its own TPUs.
What happened: Google identifies TPUs as the training hardware for the launch model. This sentence was present in the original card, although the official document has subsequently been updated; by itself, 'using' does not expressly establish exclusivity. (Google DeepMind, )
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- The two reviews reached different assessments. Our reading, not assessed: Gemini 3 is a great LLM that tops most benchmarks but is certainly not AGI.
- The criteria are ambiguous. Our reading, not assessed: The usual reports of silly errors and embarrassing results from Gemini 3 trickled out within hours of Google announcing it.
- The two reviews reached different assessments. Our reading, not assessed: Gemini 3 still suffers from hallucinations and unreliability, like all earlier models.
- The two reviews read the claim differently
- The two reviews reached different assessments. Our reading, not assessed: Gemini 3's visual and physical reasoning remain poor.
- The criteria are ambiguous. Our reading, not assessed: OpenAI has basically squandered the technical lead it once had, and Google has caught up.
- The two reviews reached different assessments. Our reading, not assessed: Scaling LLMs is not leading to AGI.