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Gemini 3 has landed.
Google embedded the new model into Search.
The new Search is available to Google AI and Ultra subscribers.
Google just made the biggest change to its search engine since the company debuted AI Overviews in it last year.
The company officially debuted Gemini 3, its latest AI model, on Tuesday morning, and has already integrated it with Search, which Google says will enable deeper contextual awareness, more sophisticated reasoning capabilities, and multimedia responses to help users unlock more useful information from the web.
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This marks the first time that a new AI model from Google has been fused with its search engine from the jump, which signals a growing level of confidence from the company as it races against OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon -- both to deploy new models and make them accessible through existing consumer-facing tools.
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