12/08/2025
Google’s Christmas Present
Article by Mike Lakas
Chief Strategy Advisor, Co-Founder
2025 has been a bonkers year in AI. Starting with the Chinese release of DeepSeek R1’s surprise release (and subsequent American panic) in January. In February we had OpenAI up the ante with ChatGPT 4.5 and its incredibly creepy sycophancy. In summer Anthropic released Claude 4 wowing developers. In late fall, the long-awaited but somewhat anticlimactic release of ChatGPT 5 (now up to ChatGPT 5.1, which IMHO is quite good). Just as twilight is setting on the year, Google turns on the floodlights with the release of Gemini 3.0.
There have been so many — SO MANY — releases this year that you may ask: Why am I writing about this one in particular? Maybe I have too much time on my hands? Am I bored? … Hahahaha. No.... It’s a significate launch.
While Google’s “Gemini” AI has been one of the leading models, it hasn’t captured the public imagination like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, nor has it become the darling of developers like Anthropic’s Claude. Google has kept up with the pack but largely has not stood out; except for its video-generation system Veo and now its (excellent) image-generation system Nano-Banana Pro.
AI releases this year have mostly been incremental (but still impressive!). As such, many wondered if we had seen the last of the explosive leaps in intelligence and had entered an age of linear or — even worse — logarithmic increases in intelligence. Well, Google had a surprise in store. And that surprise is Gemini 3.0.
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