Google's AI History
Google has been an AI company for decades. Search has always been fundamentally an AI problem. By 2025, Google has evolved Gemini from a chatbot into an ambient, agentic AI system integrated across its entire product ecosystem.
AI-First Company
In 2016, CEO Sundar Pichai declared Google an "AI-first" company. In 2025, that vision is fully realized with Gemini 3.
Key AI Achievements
Transformers (2017)
Google researchers invented the Transformer architecture in the "Attention Is All You Need" paper. It powers ChatGPT, Claude, and virtually all modern AI.
AlphaGo (2016)
DeepMind (owned by Google) created AlphaGo, which defeated the world champion at Go—a landmark AI achievement.
AlphaFold (2020)
Solved the 50-year-old protein folding problem, revolutionizing biology.
Gemini 3 (November 2025)
Google's most intelligent model, featuring advanced agentic coding abilities and a new platform called Google Antigravity for agent development.
Products (2025)
- Gemini 3 — Google's most advanced AI, competing with GPT-5 and Claude 4
- Gemini 3 Flash — Now the default AI engine in Google Search
- Gemini Deep Research — Advanced AI research agent
- Google AI Studio — Developer access to Gemini models
- AI in Search — AI-powered search answers and summaries
- Gemma 3 — Open-source model family
- Agent Development Kit (ADK) — Open-source tools for building AI agents
Gemini 3 Key Features
- Natively multimodal — Understands text, images, audio, and video
- Agentic capabilities — Orchestrates complex multi-step workflows
- Advanced reasoning — Long-context understanding and planning
- SynthID watermarks — Can verify if videos were generated by Google AI
- TPU-optimized — Fast, efficient training and deployment
DeepMind
Google acquired DeepMind in 2014. It continues breakthrough research:
- AlphaFold 3 for drug discovery
- Gemini model development
- AI for science and healthcare
Google vs. OpenAI (2025)
- Model quality — Gemini 3 competes directly with GPT-5
- Distribution — Google has billions of users across products
- Integration — Gemini embedded in Gmail, Docs, Search, Android
- Agent platforms — Google Antigravity vs OpenAI's agent tools
Summary
- • Google invented the Transformer architecture behind modern AI
- • Gemini 3 (November 2025) is Google's most intelligent model
- • Gemini is now ambient and agentic across Google products
- • DeepMind continues breakthrough scientific AI research