Casey, we have a special emergency podcast episode today about the launch of Gemini 3.

Yes, Kevin, hotly awaited, much discussed among AI nerds here in Silicon Valley.

We are finally about to get our hands on the genuine article.

Yeah, so normally we wouldn't break our Friday publication schedule to publish a special episode

just about a new model coming out from one of the big AI companies. They're releasing models all the time.

But there are a couple reasons that we thought it was worth doing this this week to talk about

this model, Gemini 3, in particular. The first is that we got some time with Demis Asabas and

Josh Woodward, two of the leading AI executives at Google. Demis, of course, is the CEO of

Google DeepMind, which is their in-house AI lab. And Josh Woodward is the VP of the Gemini team and some other stuff

there at Google. So we are excited to talk to them and ask them about this big new model

release. But I think there are a couple other reasons we were interested in doing this as well.

Yeah, I mean, one big thing, Kevin, is just that maybe more than other model releases, this one seems to have the

attention of Google's competitors. We're hearing a lot of whispers from folks who work at other

AI labs that, hmm, it seems like Gemini 3 has managed to figure some things out in a way that

may be bad for their businesses. And I think around the AI industry, there's sort of

this feeling that Google, which kind of struggled in AI for a couple years there, they had the launch

of Bard and the first versions of Gemini, which had some issues. And I think they were seen as

sort of catching up to the state of the art. And now I think the question is like,

is this kind of them taking their crown back? So we'll get into all that with Demis and Josh.

But let's just talk Casey about what we know about Gemini 3. They held a briefing early this week

and told us a little bit about the new model and what it can do. So what did we learn about

Gemini 3? Yeah. Well, so in terms of what it can do, which is always the most interesting to me,

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