Google hasn’t just topped benchmarks with its Gemini 3 model, but it’s also won the admiration of its rivals.
CEOs of rival companies including OpenAI and xAI have congratulated Google on the release of its Gemini 3 model. “Congrats to Google on Gemini 3! Looks like a great model,” posted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Elon Musk also congratulated Google. “Congrats indeed! I guess we will have to release 4.20 soon (laughing emoji),” he posted, hinting that Grok would need to release a new model to be able to compete.
Musk also said “Nice work” to a post from Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis describing the model.
Even CEOs whose companies don’t directly compete with Google posted about Gemini 3. “I asked Gemini 3 to make an interactive web page summarizing 10 breakthroughs in genetics over the past 15 years. Pretty cool IMO,” said Stripe CEO Patrick Collison.
And government executives got involved too. “Congratulations to Demis Hassabis and the team at Google for the launch of Gemini 3,” said Sriram Krishnan, White House Senior Policy Advisor for AI.
Google had earlier released Gemini 3 today morning after teasing the model for a few weeks. Expectations had been high, but Google seemed to match them. Gemini 3 topped most benchmarks, and showed impressive gains in the ARC-AGI benchmark. It also topped the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index leaderboard, opening up a 3 point lead over GPT 5.1. Gemini 3 also topped most arenas on LMAreana, where users pick models in blind tests. And as the reaction of rival CEOs and the tech industry at large shows, Google seems to have finally hit its stride in the AI race.