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Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking for Production Grade Voice Agents

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Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, native speech to speech models built for production voice agents. Both run in the Gemini Live API and replace cascaded ASR plus LLM plus TTS pipelines with a single model. The defining capability: the conversation never pauses while re…

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Timeline · 3 reports

  1. 2026-09-16 08:06 · r/GeminiAI
    Gemini 3.8 Live just made voice agents a lot harder to ignore
  2. 2026-09-15 21:34 · TestingCatalog AI News
    Google rolled out Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking
  3. 2026-09-15 21:12 · r/machinelearningnews
    Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking for Production Grade Voice Agents

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