Major U.S. equities indexes were mixed at midday Wednesday ahead of highly anticipated earnings from Nvidia (NVDA) due after the closing bell. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq gained, while the Dow fell.
Alphabet shares rallied on Thursday after investors cheered the release of Google's new Gemini 3 AI model. Google said Gemini 3 allows users to get better answers to more complex questions and doesn't need as much prompting to determine the context and intent behind their requests.
Alphabet stock was rising with Wall Street and technology analysts generally positive about its new Gemini 3 artificial-intelligence model.
Wall Street once thought ChatGPT would kill Google. Now Alphabet's stock is on track to become the best-performing “Magnificent Seven” stock on an annual basis for the first time in its history.
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Alphabet is positioned to become the structural AI winner, with Gemini 2.5 Pro leading benchmarks and Gemini 3.0 showing early signs of a step change. GOOGL's AI integration across Search, Android, YouTube, and cloud services is driving user engagement, data scale, and enterprise demand for its full-stack AI solutions. The company's custom TPUs and expanding cloud business provide a competitive edge, with cloud revenue and backlog surging due to AI infrastructure demand.
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Google is unleashing its Gemini 3 artificial intelligence model on its dominant search engine and other popular online services in the high-stakes battle to create technology that people can trust to enlighten them and manage tedious tasks.
Maybe more than other model releases, this one seems to have the attention of Google's competitors. Will it put the company at the top of the A.I.
Google announced Gemini 3, an upgraded artificial intelligence model, almost eight months after the company rolled out Gemini 2.5. The company said its latest suite of AI models will require users to do "less prompting" to get the desired results.
The new model could help the company leverage its built-in advantages of scale and profitability—if it can meet users' expectations.