Business Insider's amazing Google reporter Hugh Langley has been playing (er… working) with Google's new Gemini 3 AI service this week. This is the latest big AI model release, competing with OpenAI 's GPT-5, xAI 's Grok 4, and the latest offerings from Anthropic . Gemini 3 is getting good reviews so far. So good that Google shares hit a record on Wednesday, putting the company's market value very close to Microsoft. Here are Hugh's initial thoughts, after trying Gemini 3 out for a day or so: "