OpenAI looks to ‘Garlic’ to take on Google’s Gemini 3 AI model

OpenAI is reportedly developing a new AI model, codenamed ‘Garlic,’ to rival Google’s Gemini 3. CEO Sam Altman declared a ‘code red’ due to Gemini 3’s success. Garlic reportedly excels in coding and reasoning, aiming for an early 2026 launch. This development also improved OpenAI’s pretraining methods, leading to more efficient, smaller models.