It’s been 24 hours since tech giant Google (GOOGL) launched its newest AI model, Gemini 3, and early feedback has been very positive. More precisely, developers and startup founders say the model is especially good at writing code, as well as designing websites and digital products. This led Sourcegraph, the company behind the coding assistant Amp, to switch its default model from Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 to Google’s Gemini 3 for the first time. CEO Quinn Slack explained that Gemini 3 outperformed Claude by 17% in their tests.
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In fact, it did a better job of testing code, following instructions, and spotting patterns without needing human help. Separately, OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy called Gemini 3 a “tier 1” model by stating that it does well with personality, writing style, and humor. On price, Gemini 3 is more than 25% cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.5, though it still costs more than OpenAI’s GPT-5.1. According to Oriol Vinyals, one of the leaders of the Gemini team, the big jump in performance came mainly from better pre-training and post-training.
Pre-training teaches the model using massive amounts of data from the web, while post-training fine-tunes it with focused information. What’s surprising is that Google achieved this improvement primarily through pre-training, despite recent claims that it isn’t providing as many benefits as before. For instance, some firms, like OpenAI (PC:OPAIQ), have had trouble scaling up pre-training and have instead turned to techniques such as reinforcement learning, which rewards the model for good answers. This suggests that some of the issues others face might be specific to their own methods.
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