Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
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Intel Summary
Google DeepMind announced the introduction of Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking. The announcement presents new iterations within the Gemini model family focused on live interaction and extended reasoning, though specific technical specifications and release schedules were not detailed in the notice.
Why It Matters
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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Primary sourceGoogle 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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- Google’s new speech model Gemini 3.8 Live supports real-time reasoningSiliconANGLEIndependent reporting
- Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live to take on OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 at a fraction of the costThe DecoderIndependent reporting
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