Google’s Gemini 3 Crushes Every Benchmark

4IR - Daily AI News

Welcome back to 4IR. Here’s today’s lineup:

• Elon’s Grok 4.1 hits #1 and #2 on leaderboards---completely free - xAI drops Grok 4.1 with 3x fewer hallucinations, tops both spots on the most competitive AI arena, and gives it away free while competitors charge $200/month

• Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic announce $45 billion AI alliance - Anthropic commits $30B to Azure, Microsoft and NVIDIA invest $15B combined, making Claude the only frontier model available on all three major clouds

• Google’s Gemini 3 crushes every benchmark and launches everywhere - New model scores record 37.4% on Humanity’s Last Exam, tops LMArena, and launches same-day across Search, 650M Gemini users, and new “Antigravity” coding platform