Google for Developers introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking. These audio models improve turn-taking and near real-time reasoning, replacing cascaded speech-to-text, reasoning, and text-to-speech stacks with one multimodal API call to reduce latency and cost. They are available in the Gemini API via Google AI Studio and coming soon to the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

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  • ✓Google for Developers introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking. These audio models improve turn-taking and near real-time reasoning, replacing cascaded speech-to-text, reasoning, and text-to-speech stacks with one multimodal API call to reduce latency and cost. They are available in the Gemini API via Google AI Studio and coming soon to the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
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