Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

@GoogleDeepMindWe’re introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking – our best conversational AI. The models talk, think, and handle tasks in the background without breaking your flow. 🧵

@GoogleDeepMindWatch how we used 3.8 Live Extended Thinking to act as a programming tutor. Both models feature: 🔵 Upgraded reasoning 🔵 Near real-time visual understanding 🔵 Automatic detection for 97 languages 🔵 Background tool calling without disrupting your chat For your most difficult tasks, 3.8 Live Extended Thinking adds increased performance and precision – narrating task progress to keep the conversation going. Try it now in Gemini Live in the @GeminiApp or start building with the Gemini API via @GoogleAIStudio. Find out more → https://goo.gle/4xWn2vo

@GoogleSay “hi” to our most advanced audio models from @GoogleDeepMind yet built for natural, production-ready voice applications. 🔷 Gemini 3.8 Live 🔷 Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking With these models, you can speak naturally, collaborate easily, and tackle complex tasks using just your voice.

@GoogleGemini 3.8 Live: For more natural, fluid, and intelligent conversations 💬 It’s built for scale and cost efficiency, combining conversational intelligence with fluid dialogue and visual grounding. Try it today with Search Live in the Google app ↓

@GoogleGemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking: For your most complex tasks that need deeper reasoning and higher precision 🧠 It reasons and speaks simultaneously, while maintaining an uninterrupted conversational flow — using early verbal cues like “Let me check that…” so you can follow every thread.

@GoogleAll audio generated by our AI products is watermarked with @GoogleDeepMind's SynthID to ensure AI-generated content stays transparent and detectable. Starting today, our new audio models are rolling out for: 🔵 Everyone: Search Live (Gemini 3.8 Live) and @GeminiApp Live (Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking) 🔴 Developers: Gemini API public preview in @GoogleAIStudio 🟡 Enterprises: Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform in private preview, with Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience coming soon 🟢 Google AI Pro & Ultra subscribers: @GoogleDocs, Google Keep, and @Gmail in @GoogleWorkspace (Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking) Learn more ↓ http://goo.gle/4deBAyc

@GoogleAIGemini 3.8 Live is rolling out to: — Consumers: in Search Live — Developers: in public preview in the Gemini API via @googleaistudio — Enterprises: in private preview via Gemini Enterprise (coming soon to Gemini Enterprise Customer Experience) Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking is rolling out to: — Consumers: in Gemini Live in the @GeminiApp, plus Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in @GoogleWorkspace in @GoogleDocs, and all Google AI subscribers in @gmail and Keep — Developers: in public preview in the Gemini API via @GoogleAIStudio — Enterprises: in private preview via Gemini Enterprise (coming soon to Gemini Enterprise Customer Experience and @GoogleWorkspace business customers) https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-live-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking/

@GoogleAIIntroducing our most advanced Gemini Audio models yet 🗣 Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking let you speak, collaborate, and execute tasks seamlessly, meaning conversing with AI just got a lot more natural. So, what’s the difference between these two models? Let’s break it down: — Gemini 3.8 Live is built for scale, speed, and cost efficiency. It can handle mid-sentence interruptions, transitions across 97 languages on the fly, and understands visual context. Figure out how to fix a broken bike chain, or deal with a leaky pipe just by pointing your camera at the problem area in Search Live for step-by-step audio instructions. — Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking goes one step further to bring increased intelligence to your most complex tasks. It reasons and speaks in parallel, even narrating its progress as it works. This lets it handle multi-step, behind-the-scenes projects, like planning an event, without ever losing the conversational flow. Watch how Gemini 3.8 Live combines real-time video and voice inputs in Search Live to tackle hands-on DIY plumbing tasks step by step 👇

@_philschmidGemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are here. Following 3.5 Transcribe last month, this continues our focus on real-time voice agents. 🐸🐸 - 82.6 (#1) on Artificial Analysis Quality Index - $0.005/min input and $0.018/min output. - 35.1 (#1) Agentic task completion (τ-banking) 3.8 Live Extended Thinking can think in the background and run asynchronously tool calls while keep talking to you. It uses background thinking to coordinate multi-step tool use without losing conversational flow. Available in @GoogleAIStudio Gemini API, Google Search, and @GeminiApp or as partner plugins in @LiveKit, @Pipecat_ai, @LangChainAI, and @vercel

@_philschmidTry it in AI Studio live: https://aistudio.google.com/live?model=gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking

@_philschmidhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-live-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking

@OfficialLoganKSay hello (literally) to Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, our new SOTA live audio models, available with frontier price + performance. 3.8 Live supports 97 languages (can seamlessly switch), async tool calls, and more!

@gregisenbergGoogle JUST announced Gemini 3.8 Live. It can talk through a task with you, then keep working after the conversation ends. I think 90%+ of vertical SaaS will need a voice front door. By that I mean the way you use the software becomes talking to it, and the typing, clicking, and form filling happens on the other side without you. So a contractor standing on a job site just says what went wrong out loud. And by the time he's back in the truck, the quote is sent, inventory is checked, the CRM is updated, the customer got a text, and anything risky is flagged for him. Kinda the dream, right? The same thing works for nurses, dispatchers, recruiters, brokers, insurance agents etc. The person talks and the agent finishes the admin. Lots of opportunities here to build voice-first businesses (been thinking about this more and more). I think this is how vertical software becomes invisible. Nobody logs in, nobody fills out a form, and nobody learns your interface. You just talk, and the work gets done behind you. This is a glimpse of where SaaS is going. SaaS is going invisible.

@gregisenbergAre invisible interfaces coming? Google JUST announced Gemini 3.8 Live. It can talk through a task with you, then keep working after the conversation ends. I think 90%+ of vertical SaaS will need a voice front door. By that I mean the way you use the software becomes talking to it, and the typing, clicking, and form filling happens on the other side without you. So a contractor standing on a job site just says what went wrong out loud. And by the time he's back in the truck, the quote is sent, inventory is checked, the CRM is updated, the customer got a text, and anything risky is flagged for him. Kinda the dream, right? The same thing works for nurses, dispatchers, recruiters, brokers, insurance agents etc. The person talks and the agent finishes the admin. Lots of opportunities here to build voice-first businesses (been thinking about this more and more). I think this is how vertical software becomes invisible. Nobody logs in, nobody fills out a form, and nobody learns your interface. You just talk, and the work gets done behind you. This is a glimpse of where SaaS is going. Not fully there yet but it's coming. Invisible interfaces.

@rohanpaul_aiGoogle released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking And now it takes the #1 overall speech-to-speech score, with also a narrow quality lead but a much larger price advantage over its nearest frontier competitors (OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium). - Gemini 3.8 Live reaches genuinely frontier-level voice-agent performance at $0.84/hour, including a higher composite score than GPT-Realtime-2 High at roughly 80% lower measured cost. - Both these models are multimodal live models, i.e. voice is the primary conversational interface, but visual input can provide additional context during the conversation. So both the models also process visual context and automatically switch among 97 supported languages during conversation. - Extended Thinking scores 68.6% on τ-Voice, versus 67.9% for GPT-Live-1 Astra medium. τ-Voice tests measures whether a voice model can actually finish a real multi-step task, not just sound natural or answer spoken questions. On this bench, the model has to hold a conversation, follow domain policies, use tools correctly, and reach the right outcome across airline, retail, and telecom customer-service scenarios.

@koraykvIntroducing Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking. Voice agents with reasoning capabilities that make conversing with AI feel more intuitive and intelligent. The model can take turns seamlessly, think through complexity, and feel more natural to talk to.

@koraykvYou can read more at https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/build-real-time-voice-applications-gemini-audio/

@ArtificialAnlysGoogle has released Gemini 3.8 Live, its new Speech to Speech model, with the Extended Thinking (High) variant debuting at #1 on the Artificial Analysis Speech to Speech Index at 82.6, and #1 on our Tau Voice benchmark implementation at 68.6% Gemini 3.8 Live is @GoogleDeepMind's successor to Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, a Speech to Speech model that executes tools and API calls in the background while continuing the conversation. It comes in two variants: the standard Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, which supports configurable reasoning effort. We evaluated the standard model and the Extended Thinking variant at High reasoning effort through the Gemini Live API. Key takeaways: ➤ Speech to Speech Index: Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) debuts at #1 at 82.6, ahead of GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) at 81.5, Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High at 81.3 and GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low) at 80.1. The standard Gemini 3.8 Live debuts at #5 at 76.0, with both variants up on Gemini 3.1 Flash Live High at 71.5 (+11.1 and +4.5 points). The Index averages Speech Reasoning (Big Bench Audio), Agentic Performance (Tau Voice), Arena Preference and Arena Task Success Rate ➤ Speech Agent Arena: Gemini 3.8 Live ranks #2 in preference at Elo 1083, behind Gemini 3.1 Flash Live (1096) and ahead of GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low) at 1053, and #2 on Task Success Rate at 93.2%, behind Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High at 94.6%. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) trails at Elo 990 with 89.1% task success ➤ Tau Voice: Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) takes the top spot on our Tau Voice benchmark implementation at 68.6%, ahead of GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) at 67.9%, GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low) at 59.3% and Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High at 56.5% - up from 37.7% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Live High. The standard Gemini 3.8 Live scores 30.1% ➤ Big Bench Audio: Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) scores 97.7% on audio reasoning, ahead of Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High at 97.2% and behind Qwen Audio 3.0 Realtime Plus at 99.2%. The standard Gemini 3.8 Live scores 91.7% ➤ Speed: Average Time to First Audio on Big Bench Audio is 1.18 seconds for Gemini 3.8 Live and 1.35 seconds for Extended Thinking (High), both well ahead of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live High (2.99s) and in line with GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low) at 1.24s and GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) at 1.34s, though behind Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High at 0.70s ➤ Cost: Gemini 3.8 Live costs $0.84 per hour of input audio, the cheapest model in the Index and roughly half the $1.75 of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live High. Extended Thinking (High) costs $3.50 per hour - cheaper than GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low) at $4.47, Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High at $4.80 and GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) at $5.83, and ~3.1x cheaper than GPT-Realtime-2.1 High at $10.75 See below for more detail ⬇️

@ArtificialAnlysIn our Speech Agent Arena, where people hold blind live voice conversations and pick the model they prefer, Gemini 3.8 Live debuts at #2 with an Elo of 1083, behind only Gemini 3.1 Flash Live (1096) and ahead of GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low) at 1053. It also completes 93.2% of tasks successfully, #2 on Task Success Rate behind Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High at 94.6%. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) sits at Elo 990 with an 89.1% Task Success Rate.

@ArtificialAnlysGemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) takes the #1 spot on Tau Voice, our benchmark for agentic performance, at 68.6%, ahead of GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) at 67.9%, GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low) at 59.3% and Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High at 56.5% - up from 37.7% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Live High. The standard Gemini 3.8 Live scores 30.1%.

@ArtificialAnlysOn Big Bench Audio, our speech reasoning benchmark, Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) scores 97.7%, ahead of Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High (97.2%) and behind Qwen Audio 3.0 Realtime Plus at 99.2%. The standard Gemini 3.8 Live scores 91.7%.

@ArtificialAnlysGemini 3.8 Live's average Time to First Audio on the Big Bench Audio benchmark is 1.18 seconds, and 1.35 seconds for Extended Thinking (High) - both well ahead of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live High at 2.99 seconds. That puts the standard model marginally ahead of GPT-Realtime-2.1 High (1.21s), GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low) (1.24s) and GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) (1.34s), with Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High (0.70s) the only model in the top 5 of our Speech to Speech Index under 1 second.

@ArtificialAnlysCompare Gemini 3.8 Live to other native Speech to Speech models: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/speech-to-speech Speech Agent Arena leaderboard: https://artificialanalysis.ai/speech-to-speech/arena Methodology: https://artificialanalysis.ai/methodology/speech-to-speech-benchmarking

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