Google had appeared to miss the AI bus when OpenAI had launched ChatGPT in late 2022, but the tech giant seems to back where it belongs.
Google’s Gemini 3 Pro model has become the top AI model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index leaderboard. This is the first time that Google has taken the top spot. Gemini 3 scored 73 on the leaderboard, leaving some daylight between GPT 5.1, which had scored 70 to take the top spot last week.
“Gemini 3 Pro is the new leader in AI. Google has the leading language model for the first time, with Gemini 3 Pro debuting +3 points above GPT-5.1 in our Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index,” Artificial Analysis wrote in a post on X.
“The model outperforms all other models in Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It demonstrates strength across the board, coming in first in 5 of the 10 evaluations that make up Intelligence Index. Despite these intelligence gains, Gemini 3 Pro Preview shows improved token efficiency from Gemini 2.5 Pro, using significantly fewer tokens on the Intelligence Index than other leading models such as Kimi K2 Thinking and Grok 4. However, given its premium pricing ($2/$12 per million input/output tokens for <200K context), Gemini 3 Pro is among the most expensive models to run our Intelligence Index evaluations,” it added.
“Gemini 3 Pro Preview is the leading model in 5 of 10 evals in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, including GPQA Diamond, MMLU-Pro, HLE, LiveCodeBench and SciCode. Its score of 37% on Humanity’s Last Exam is particularly impressive, improving on the previous best model by more than 10 percentage points. It also is leading in AA-Omniscience, Artificial Analysis’ new knowledge and hallucination evaluation, coming first in both Omniscience Index (our lead metric that takes off points for incorrect answers) and Omniscience Accuracy (percentage correct),” Artificial Analysis said.
“Gemini 3 Pro Preview has comparable speeds to Gemini 2.5 Pro, with 128 output tokens per second. This places it ahead of other frontier models including GPT-5.1 (high), Kimi K2 Thinking and Grok 4,” the report added.