Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

Introduces Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking models. Gemini 3.8 Live focuses on scale and cost efficiency with conversational intelligence, fluid dialogue, and visual grounding, achieving high user preference and cost-effectiveness. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking is designed for high-complexity tasks with increased intelligence and multi-step reasoning, leading in agentic task completion benchmarks and providing strong reasoning capabilities. Both models process visual inputs in near real-time, support automatic language detection and transition across 97 languages, and execute tools/API calls in the background. Extended Thinking provides simultaneous reasoning and speaking with early verbal cues and live progress narration. The Gemini Live API is updated to support these models, with integrations from platforms like Agora, Fishjam, LangChain, LiveKit, Pipecat, Vercel, and Vision Agents. SynthID watermarking is applied to all generated audio.