Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

Key points

• Today, we’re introducing two new models that bring advancements in near real-time reasoning to more effectively enable voice agents and make conversing with AI feel more intuitive and intelligent.1
• Gemini 3.8 Live: Built for scale and cost efficiency, combining conversational intelligence with fluid dialogue and visual grounding.1
• Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking: Built for high-complexity tasks, with increased intelligence and multi-step reasoning.1
• Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking provides enterprise-grade task completion and intelligence, capturing the #1 overall spot on Artificial Analysis' Speech to Speech Quality Index (82.6), and leads in agentic task completion with 68.6% on τ-Voice and 35.1% on Sierra’s τ-Voice-banking benchmark.1

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• [1]Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
  Google DeepMind Blog · Sep 15, 05:05 PM

  Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

  Today, we’re introducing two new models that bring advancements in near real-time reasoning to more effectively enable voice agents and make conversing with AI feel more intuitive and intelligent.

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