{"id":626126,"date":"2026-09-16T06:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T06:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626126\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T06:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T06:04:11","slug":"gemini-3-8-live-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626126\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemini 3.8 Live &#038; Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"qerdb\">Today, we\u2019re introducing two new models that bring advancements in near real-time reasoning to more effectively enable voice agents and make conversing with AI feel more intuitive and intelligent.<\/p>\n<p>Gemini 3.8 Live: Built for scale and cost efficiency, combining conversational intelligence with fluid dialogue and visual grounding.Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking: Built for high-complexity tasks, with increased intelligence and multi-step reasoning.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"8kbk7\">For developers and enterprises, these models deliver the building blocks for reliable, production-ready voice agents. They also make speaking with Gemini across the Gemini app, Google Workspace, and Search more fluid and collaborative \u2014 helping you tackle complex tasks using just your voice.<\/p>\n<p>Experience more fluid, intelligent conversations<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"e5btu\">Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking provides enterprise-grade task completion and intelligence, capturing the #1 overall spot on Artificial Analysis&#8217; Speech to Speech Quality Index (82.6), and leads in agentic task completion with 68.6% on \u03c4-Voice and 35.1% on Sierra\u2019s \u03c4-Voice-banking benchmark. It also provides strong reasoning capabilities, scoring 97.7% on Big Bench Audio, while maintaining a highly competitive price point compared to other frontier models.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"agoe\">Gemini 3.8 Live has shown a high preference among users, securing a second place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/artificialanalysis.ai\/speech-to-speech?api-benchmarks=agentic-performance-vs-cost-to-run#speech-to-speech-arena-results-tabs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speech Agent Arena<\/a>. In addition to this performance, it remains highly cost-effective \u2014 providing developers and enterprises with a capable and efficient model built for scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, we\u2019re introducing two new models that bring advancements in near real-time reasoning to more effectively enable voice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,9277,80],"class_list":["post-626126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-none","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}