Last week Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking models, touting them as the company's most advanced live dialogue models yet.
Google has added video to that formula with Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar.
The avatars are backed by Gemini's advanced reasoning, allowing Live Avatar to trigger tool calls and fetch data in the background while continuing an active dialogue.
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Last week Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking models, touting them as the company's most advanced live dialogue models yet. The idea, it said, was to give "developers and enterprises..."
Google has added video to that formula with Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar.
In several videos in the blog, Google shows both realistic and cartoon-like Avatars. The avatars are backed by Gemini's advanced reasoning, allowing Live Avatar to trigger tool calls and fetch data in the background while continuing an active dialogue.
Google will offer a library of "diverse, preset avatars," or organizations can customize their own from high-quality reference images to preserve "reference likeness, brand styling or character identity."
As mentioned, Live Avatar is designed strictly for Google's Gemini Enterprise customers.
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