Is Google Gemini the best AI?

Computerworld.com reported that “It took just under three years, but Google has finally caught up and overtaken its AI competitors.”  The December 1, 2025 article entitled “Google is now the best at AI — but is it enough?” (https://www.computerworld.com/article/4098843/google-is-now-the-best-at-ai-but-is-it-enough.html) had these comments:

When OpenAI released ChatGPT at the end of 2022 and created a world-wide sensation, Google was caught napping— and panicked. Despite the fact its researchers had introduced the architecture behind the new language models five years earlier, and despite having the now Nobel Prize-winning AI lab Deepmind in the corporate family, it was OpenAI, not Google, that developed the first widely usable model.

There’s a lot of rumor and speculation floating around about what it was like at Google at the time. CEO Sundar Pichai supposedly declared “Code Red” internally, something he later denied. Larry Page and Sergey Brin reportedly stepped back into the company in “founder mode.” Either way, Google reorganized and put Deepmind and its head, Demis Hassabis, in the driver’s seat to focus on the new large language models (LLMs).

Google’s first attempt was Bard; it was released in the spring of 2023 and made serious mistakes from the get-go. Clearly, despite its muscle, Google had a long way to go to catch up with OpenAI and its patron Microsoft.

The journey lasted three years, because when Google released Gemini 3 last month, it was immediately clear Google had — at least for now — taken the lead in AI by a fairly good margin. Gemini 3 crushes rival tools in most measurable parameters, and more importantly, is almost unanimously praised by users.

It is not only Gemini 3 that makes Google right. Competitors are sure to release new top models that will keep the rally at the top of the LLM Arena going. It’s how they’ve done it that puts Google in a unique position.

What do you think?