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Google/DeepMind announce Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

Google and Google DeepMind announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking; the source material is limited to a title image referencing 'Gemini Spark' and provides no technical details. This appears to be a product/model announcement but further specifics were not included in the provided source.

KEY POINTS

  1. Google and Google DeepMind announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking; the source material is limited to a title image referencing 'Gemini Spark' and provides no technical details.
  2. This appears to be a product/model announcement but further specifics were not included in the provided source.
  3. An announcement of new Gemini versions signals ongoing development of Google's flagship models and is relevant to competition and capability tracking, though the source gives no technical specifics.

WHY IT MATTERS

An announcement of new Gemini versions signals ongoing development of Google's flagship models and is relevant to competition and capability tracking, though the source gives no technical specifics.

SOURCES & TIMELINE

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GOOGLE FIRST-PARTY
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet. Major upgrades in intelligence and parallel reasoning make them more intuitive to collaborate with and use to execute complex tasks using your voice. Member of Technical Staff, on behalf of the Gemini Audio Team Your browser does not support the audio element. Today, we’re introducing two new models that bring adv…

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GOOGLE DEEPMIND FIRST-PARTY
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet. Major upgrades in intelligence and parallel reasoning make them more intuitive to collaborate with and use to execute complex tasks using your voice. Member of Technical Staff, on behalf of the Gemini Audio Team Your browser does not support the audio element. Today, we’re introducing two new models that bring adv…

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THE DECODER INDEPENDENT COVERAGE
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live to take on OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 at a fraction of the cost

Google Deepmind released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new audio models for developers available through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio . Gemini 3.8 Live powers voice agents that can make API calls in the background, process visual input, and keep talking at the same time. It supports over 97 languages. The Extended Thinking variant ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Le…