Google readies Gemini 3, Perplexity hits $200 million

Reporting on Google's next model release and Perplexity's business. Also: AI job moves and some links.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis.

Sources say that Google is targeting December for the release of Gemini 3.0, the next major version of its flagship AI model. This timing is to be expected, given that Google has released new Gemini base models in December for the last two years, but for some reason, ill-founded rumors have been swirling about 3.0 drop…