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Google's Gemini 3 Strikes Back: How a $4 Trillion Valuation Was Built in One Week

Google launches Gemini 3 with record-breaking benchmarks—1501 Elo on LMArena and 73 points on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index—pushing Alphabet's market cap toward $4 trillion as stock surges 9% over two sessions. The model debuts simultaneously across 2 billion monthly AI Overviews users and 650 million Gemini app users, leveraging Google's proprietary Ironwood TPUs and full-stack infrastructure advantage. OpenAI's Sam Altman warns staff of "rough vibes" ahead while Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5 in reactive response, as Google's distribution scale and pricing at $2 per million input tokens reshape competitive dynamics.

2025-11-26

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