Sundar Pichai: Gemini 3.0 is going to be released «this year»

After many a rumor and speculation as to when Google would reply to OpenAI’s GPT-5 — we now have proof right from head of Google himself.

In a sitdown/interview with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the Dreamforce 2025 conference, that goes long on the future of AI, cloud and innovations, he let this qoute rip:

— We kickstarted Gemini, we brought Google brain and Google deep mind together, and we’ve been rapidly iterating since then, he tells Benioff, then adds some forward looking comments:

«Extraodinary progress»
— We have had, you know, now we have Gemini 2.5 outside, we are working on Gemini 3.0 which we will release this year and and the progress has been extraordinary and I think the progress in ’26 is going to be even more exciting than ’25.

This hasn’t stopped rumors from saying the release is imminent, though, as they have been saying for months.

The «this year» comment could of course be anything, but it has turned many to speculate on late November, early December — and it’s looking like a quite the kicker.

Really intelligent agents
He goes on to say a bit later on the capabilities of Gemini 3.0:

— We’ve already had dramatic progress over the past couple of years but the progress ahead is palpably going to be, you’re going to feel that these models are going to be really intelligent agents and they’re going to be more robust agents.

In the interview, he also credits OpenAI on bringing out chatbots first — and says they were ready launch «maybe a few months down the line,» according to The Times of India.

Read more: The entire inteview (relevant bits at 30:00 and 43:00), writeup by The Times of India, tidbits from Techzine and discussion on r/Singularity.