Google Releases Gemini 3 Pro AI Model with Audio Transcription and New Benchmark Performance
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Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
Summary
Google has released Gemini 3 Pro, an upgraded version of Gemini 2.5 that brings it to parity with leading rival AI models. The article provides a hands-on review of the new model, highlighting its audio transcription capabilities, performance on the new 'pelican' benchmark, and technical specifications including 1 million input tokens and January 2025 knowledge cutoff. The author tested the model through preview access in AI Studio and found it to be a significant improvement over previous versions, positioning it competitively against other major AI models in the market.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledGoogle released Gemini 3 Pro today. It's a big release!
The best way to describe it is that it's Gemini 2.5 upgraded to match the leading rival models.
Gemini 3 has the same underlying characteristics as Gemini 2.5. The knowledge cutoff is the same (January 2025). It accepts 1 million input tokens.
I had a few days of preview access to this model via AI Studio.
Here's the announcement from Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis, and Koray Kavukcuoglu, their developer blog announcement from Logan Kilpatrick, the Gemini 3 Pro Model Card, and their collection of 11 more articles.
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