Gemini Live 3.8

Release Summary

Google's default low-latency native speech-to-speech model for real-time voice agents, succeeding gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview. Processes audio, image, video, and text with a 131k-token input window and 65k output. Supports asynchronous function calling, near real-time visual grounding, and mid-conversation switching across 97 languages. Google reports a second-place Speech Agent Arena ranking. API ID gemini-3.8-live on the Gemini Live API. Audio list rates $3/M input ($0.005/min) and $12/M output ($0.018/min); text is $0.75/$4.50. Rolling out in the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Gemini Enterprise private preview, and Search Live. Comparable live-dialogue product: GPT Live 1.

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