Gemini 3

Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro were announced last week along with a few other new features and tools:

• Gemini 3 does better on many benchmarks but one thing I noticed - it’s better at giving appropriate-length responses to many queries and doesn’t always try to write an essay for everything. It also generally asks good follow-up questions (like GPT-5).

• Nano Banana Pro is better at handling various forms of text and keeping images consistent, which makes it better for cartoons and infographics. The overall quality has also become even more realistic, here’s a photo it generated of Lincoln giving the Gettysburg Address:

  

  (and here’s an actual photo from then)

• Veo 3.1 was released in October and is available in Gemini itself, so any pro user can play around with generating 8-second videos. Here’s a video it generated of an otter piloting an airplane. For more control (but the same model), there’s also Flow and Vids.

• Storybook gem - this existed before but appears to now uses better image generation. The tool is cute but it’s hard to make precise edits to specific text and images, you can only chat with Gemini overall to suggest changes. Here’s a story about the superhero “Rationalist Man”.

  

• Antigravity - This is Google’s new AI-focused coding IDE. You can prompt the AI to build something and it will first create an outline coding plan which you can edit before it begins development. It will also open up a browser and test out the changes it makes on its own (although it doesn’t catch everything). You can also run multiple agents simultaneously on different tasks. I tried my coding test and asked it to create a Dark Chess game and it worked reasonably well, although it installed too many modules. I also occasionally ran into API limits on “Gemini 3 Pro (High)”, but they have other options including Claude Sonnet. Here’s the UI it created:

  

• Visual Layout - This option in Gemini creates a glossy “museum-style” breakdown of a topic, which provides an interactive interface for exploring more. Here’s an overview of The Republic by Plato.