Google’s Gemini 3 Outperforms Anthropic in Developer Tests, Shifts AI Competitive Landscape
Google's newly launched Gemini 3 AI model is making waves in the developer community, with early adopters reporting superior performance in coding tasks compared to Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5. Sourcegraph has already switched its default model to Gemini 3, citing a 17% performance advantage in code testing, instruction following, and pattern recognition.
The model's competitive pricing—25% cheaper than Claude though still pricier than OpenAI's GPT-5.1—combined with its enhanced capabilities in personality expression and writing style, positions it as a 'tier 1' contender in the AI space. Gemini team lead Oriol Vinyals attributes the leap in quality to refined pre-training and post-training methodologies.