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Issue #160: Gemini 3 and the Dawn of AI Design
PLUS: Prometheus emerges, Grok 4.1 sharpens, Claude surges with $15B, and Palantir gets NVIDIA’s crown.
Nathan Lands
November 20, 2025
Good morning, welcome to this week’s Lore Brief, your 3-minute brief of the most important moves in AI and tech.
This week is all about Gemini 3 Pro, Google’s new frontier model. What stands out isn’t just the benchmarks. It’s that this is the first time AI feels genuinely capable of real design work, not just templates or surface-level polish.
To prove it, we rebuilt the entire Lore.com site using Gemini 3 Pro through Factory. And it took me like 10 minutes…
The jump in quality surprised even me. Take a look.
— Nathan Lands
Google launches Gemini 3, its most important and capable model yet → Gemini 3 Pro claims top spot on nearly every major benchmark with wide margins, including a record 1501 Elo on LMArena, 37.5% on Humanity's Last Exam. Early feedback on X is very positive - many experienced users say Gemini 3 Pro is the strongest model they've tried yet and noticeably better than other recent releases. Read more here →
Jeff Bezos returns as CEO of "Project Prometheus" → Jeff Bezos has stepped out of semi-retirement to co-lead Project Prometheus, a new AI startup backed by $6.2 billion in funding. Unlike text-based LLMs, the company focuses on "AI for the physical world," aiming to revolutionize engineering, robotics, and manufacturing. Read more here →
xAI releases Grok 4.1 with sharper personality and fewer hallucinations → Elon Musk’s xAI introduced Grok 4.1, claiming a 3x reduction in hallucination rates compared to its predecessor. The model currently holds the top spot on the LMArena leaderboard and features improved emotional intelligence and creative writing capabilities. Read more here →
Impressive Gemini 3.0 demo:
Another prominent designer on X praising Gemini 3:
Nano Banana 2 leak:
Anthropic lands $15B from Microsoft and NVIDIA → Claude arrives on Azure (now the only frontier model on AWS, GCP, and Azure), with Microsoft investing up to $5B and NVIDIA up to $10B plus deep hardware collaboration. Read more here →
Tesla reveals parallel "chunk" assembly for Cybercab → Factory builds major subassemblies simultaneously then snaps them together like Lego, promising up to 50% faster lines and 30% lower cost for the sub-$30k Robotaxi. Read more here →
Palantir's Ontology gets Jensen Huang's ultimate endorsement → NVIDIA's CEO called it "the single most important enterprise stack in the world" - a semantic layer that maps real-world entities, relationships, and actions into a live digital twin for decisions and AI agents. See more here →
Suno raises $250M Series C at $2.45B valuation → Menlo Ventures led the round with NVIDIA's NVentures and others joining to fuel pro tools, social features, and a broader creator ecosystem for AI music generation. Read more here →
Bryan Johnson: the one health metric that rules them all → The longevity obsessive says lowering pre-bed resting heart rate is his single most powerful habit - it drives better sleep, willpower, and downstream choices. See more here →
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin nails first New Glenn booster landing → On its second flight, the massive rocket deployed NASA's ESCAPADE Mars probes and returned the first stage to a sea platform, marking the first orbital-class recovery outside SpaceX. A big step toward reusable heavy lift. Read more here →