AI News: Insane Week - Gemini 3 Was Just The Start

Quick Overview

The past week in AI news featured major releases like Google's Gemini 3, Meta's SAM 3D for 3D reconstruction, OpenAI's GPT-5.1-Codex-Max for advanced coding, new features in Grok 4.1 leading the EQ-Bench, Microsoft's expansion of Copilot integration and agent features, a new AI design tool from Replit powered by Gemini 3.0, and new image/video models from ElevenLabs, all while Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic announced a massive strategic partnership.

Key Points: Google launched Gemini 3, which is now available in Search, the Gemini app, Agent Mode, AI Studio, API, CLI, and the Antigravity IDE, featuring superior benchmarks across reasoning and coding compared to previous models. Meta released Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3) and the Segment Anything Playground, capable of segmenting objects in both images and video, and generating 3D objects and scenes from single images/videos. OpenAI released GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a frontier agentic coding model featuring 'compaction' to handle long-running tasks (over 24 hours) without context window limits. Grok 4.1 (especially the 4.1 Thinking mode) topped the LM Arena Text Leaderboard and led the EQ-Bench for Emotional Intelligence, scoring 1586. Microsoft announced 70 new announcements at Ignite, heavily focusing on integrating AI agents into Windows and across their suite (Copilot, File Explorer, Office apps), and unveiled ChatGPT for Teachers for free until June 2027. ElevenLabs introduced its Studio 3.0, unifying image and video creation workflows with access to models like Veo, Sora, Kling, and Seedance. Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership, with Microsoft and NVIDIA committing up to $10 billion and $5 billion respectively to Anthropic.

Context: This video functions as an AI News Rundown, covering significant product releases and industry developments from the past week (around November 18-19, 2025). The host, wearing a 'Future Tools' hat, summarizes major updates from Google (Gemini 3), Meta (SAM 3D), OpenAI (GPT-5.1-Codex-Max), XAI (Grok 4.1), Microsoft (Ignite announcements), and ElevenLabs, highlighting advancements in multimodal AI, coding assistance, and agentic workflows.