Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.8 Live audio models
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new speech-to-speech audio models for developers. The models reportedly lead the Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech leaderboard and are offered at $1.38 per hour of voice conversation to undercut OpenAI's GPT-Live-1. Claims are as reported; this summary makes no determination about accuracy or significance.
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The release reflects Google's continued architectural focus on real-time interaction and multi-step reasoning capabilities in frontier models. Developers and enterprise evaluators will need to assess operational costs, inference latency, and API availability as comprehensive benchmark data and documentation are published.
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