Google releases Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking audio models

Google AI announces Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking as its most advanced Gemini Audio models.

Gemini 3.8 Live is built for scale, speed, and cost efficiency, handling mid-sentence interruptions, transitions across 97 languages, and visual context through Search Live.

Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking reasons and speaks in parallel, narrating its progress on multi-step tasks such as event planning.