88Z AI, 16 September — Google has released the Gemini 3.8 Live series of real-time conversation models, comprising a standard version and an Extended Thinking version. The standard edition focuses on scalable deployment and cost optimization, supporting automatic multi-language switching and visual understanding. The Extended Thinking edition enhances multi-step reasoning capabilities, enabling simultaneous reasoning and speech, and performs excellently in various benchmark tests.
At a glance
- The standard version supports automatic switching across 97 languages and near real-time visual understanding, focusing on cost optimization and scalable deployment.
- The Extended Thinking version enhances multi-step reasoning with simultaneous reasoning and speech, ranking first in benchmarks such as voice quality.
The update
Google has officially launched the native real-time voice conversation model Gemini 3.8 Live, which includes two versions to meet different needs. The standard Gemini 3.8 Live is primarily designed for scalable deployment scenarios, aiming to optimize usage costs. It features robust language capabilities, supporting automatic switching across 97 languages, and possesses near real-time visual understanding. Additionally, it can call various tools in the background to assist with interactions. The other version, Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, focuses on enhancing complex multi-step reasoning capabilities. This version allows the model to output speech simultaneously while performing deep reasoning, achieving efficient parallelism between thought and expression. With this feature, it has achieved top rankings in several key benchmark tests, including voice quality, demonstrating leading real-time interaction performance.
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