Gemini 3.8 audio models, Live Avatar and a planned Project Suncatcher satellite test
Google AI also highlights Gemini Notebook updates: an interactive hub for source summaries and artifacts, plus hands-free mobile voice chat in about 100 languages.
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Google AI’s September 25, 2026 roundup highlights Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS audio-generation models, alongside Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, which it says brings near real-time visual presence to conversational AI. For Gemini Notebook, it lists Interactive Learning Overviews, an interactive hub for all users to combine source summaries and artifacts, and mobile Live Chat for real-time, hands-free voice conversations in about 100 languages. Google AI also says Project Suncatcher will launch a prototype satellite to test Google TPUs in orbit and explore solar-powered AI computing in space.