Gemini 3 Thought It Was Still 2024

Google’s new Gemini 3 model has made headlines after AI researcher Andrej Karpathy discovered that, when left offline, it was certain the year was still 2024.

How The Discovery Happened

The incident emerged during Karpathy’s early access testing. A day before Gemini 3 was released publicly, Google granted him the chance to try the model and share early impressions. Known for his work at OpenAI, Tesla, and now at Eureka Labs, Karpathy often probes models in unconventional ways to understand how they behave outside the typical benchmark environment.