Google's year in review: 8 areas with research breakthroughs in 2025
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Google released Gemini 3 and Gemini 3 Flash in late 2025, advancing AI capabilities in reasoning, multimodal understanding, and mathematical problem-solving across multiple benchmarks. Gemini 3 achieved 23.4% accuracy on MathArena Apex and gold-medal performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad, while Gemini 3 Flash matched Gemini 3 Pro's reasoning quality at lower cost and faster speed. The company expanded AI across products including Pixel phones, Search, and developer tools, and demonstrated applications in drug discovery, protein folding research used by 3 million researchers globally, and flood forecasting now covering 2 billion people across 150 countries.
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Google 2025 recap: Research breakthroughs of the year
