Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (blog.google)

Google has announced the launch of two new AI models, Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, designed to enhance voice agent capabilities through real-time reasoning and conversational intelligence. Gemini 3.8 Live is optimized for scale and cost efficiency, enabling fluid dialogue and visual grounding. In contrast, Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking focuses on high-complexity tasks, offering advanced intelligence and multi-step reasoning, making it particularly useful for enterprises. The significance of these models lies in their ability to improve the user experience by facilitating more intuitive and collaborative interactions through voice. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking has achieved top rankings in performance indexes for speech quality and task completion, demonstrating strong reasoning capabilities while maintaining competitive pricing. The models also feature real-time visual processing and seamless multi-language support, making them suitable for complex workflows. Furthermore, with the integration of SynthID watermarking for audio output, the new models aim to ensure responsible AI usage by making AI-generated content detectable, thus addressing concerns around misinformation.