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Google Launches Gemini 3.8 Live Models That Can Reason While They Talk - TechRepublic

Gemini 3.8 Live brings real-time voice reasoning and background tool use to Google’s latest generation of AI agents. Image: Google

Google’s Gemini 3.8 Live models bring faster voice interactions and deeper background reasoning, with Extended Thinking able to work while it talks.

Sep 17, 2026

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Voice assistants often fall silent when a request gets complicated. Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on Sept. 15 to keep the conversation going while the model reasons through multistep tasks and runs tools in the background.

The model arrived alongside the lower-latency Gemini 3.8 Live. For developers, Extended Thinking changes a basic assumption of voice-agent design: the end of a spoken response no longer necessarily means the underlying task is finished.

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