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Google Pushes Gemini 3 Pro Into Search And The Gemini App

The new model lands a few weeks before Gemini 2’s first birthday and brings a task-running agent to the Gemini app.

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6 months ago

November 19, 2025

Nour Nasir

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Google has pushed Gemini 3 Pro across its consumer and developer platforms, dropping the model into the Gemini app, Google Search’s AI Mode and other products across the company’s cloud stack in a single sweep.

In the app, the model sits behind the “Thinking” option and is open to all users, with higher limits for paid tiers. Answers are reported to be tighter and better structured. More importantly, it unlocks Gemini Agent, a task-runner built on last year’s Project Mariner. Once granted access to Google apps, it can handle chores directly — managing email instead of just suggesting how.

Search has also received a major upgrade. Gemini 3 Pro goes live first for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers inside AI Mode and will also power AI Overviews for the hardest queries. A new routing system (due soon), will decide when a question is sent to the upgraded model. For now, subscribers can trigger it by selecting “Thinking” in AI Mode.

Google argues the model strengthens the “fan-out” technique behind AI Mode by running broader, deeper searches and surfacing material earlier versions overlooked. Better multimodal analysis should also produce more functional answers; researching personal loans, for example, could return an embedded calculator rather than a wall of text.

The company is leaning on benchmark gains to anchor the launch. On benchmarking platform Humanity’s Last Exam, the model hit 37.5 percent accuracy, topping Grok 4 by 12.1 points without using web search. It also leads the LMArena board with 1,501 points.

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Developers get the same upgrades too: Gemini 3 Pro is now in the Gemini API, AI Studio and Vertex AI. Google is also adding Antigravity, an autonomous coding tool that writes software while generating its own subtasks and progress notes. Gemini 3 Deep Think, a higher-end reasoning mode, will reach safety testers first before moving to AI Ultra users.

For MENA firms already prototyping with Google models, the rollout offers quicker access to production-grade assistants and coding agents as competition between global AI platforms tightens.

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At I/O 2026, Sundar Pichai Concedes AI Must Deliver Real Value

Gemini 3.5, a personal agent called Spark, agentic shopping, and Android XR eyewear are all aimed at making AI feel useful, not just impressive.

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6 days ago

May 20, 2026

Nour Nasir

at io 2026 sundar pichai concedes ai must deliver real value

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Google’s annual I/O developer conference (I/O 2026) has recently become a status update on the same question: can the company turn its AI spending into products people use every day? This year, chief executive Sundar Pichai described Google as being in a phase of hyper progress, while conceding this is the part of the cycle where people want to see real value in the products they use on a day-to-day basis.

The strategy on display was to push agents — AI systems that act on a user’s behalf — into nearly every Google product at once. Search now has an “intelligent search box” that returns generated explainer videos alongside links. Gmail, Docs, YouTube and Maps are gaining their own agent layers, including a Docs Live feature that turns spoken instructions into drafted text with citations.

Two new models, Gemini 3.5 and a cheaper Gemini 3.5 Flash, arrived the same day. Google says 900 million people now use Gemini, and that more than 50 billion images have been generated with it. The pricing tier names are likely to confuse buyers: a new AI Ultra plan launches at $100 a month, while the older Gemini AI Ultra drops from $250 to $200.

The flashier announcements were Gemini Omni, a video generator pitched as a more realistic answer to OpenAI’s discontinued Sora 2, and Gemini Spark, a personal agent that handles recurring tasks across a user’s Google account. A new universal shopping cart lets agents complete purchases across multiple retailers from inside Google itself, placing the company between the merchant and the buyer, and also owning the checkout.

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Google also confirmed its Android XR eyewear, built with Samsung and frames from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. Audio-only glasses ship this autumn; a display-equipped version, which would superimpose live translations into the wearer’s field of view, is still in development. Both sets translate, however only the display version shows you the result.

What Pichai did not resolve is the bargain underneath all this. An agent is only useful to the degree it knows your calendar, your inbox, your shopping history and your physical surroundings. Google has now confirmed that, in time, the same context may carry advertising.