Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, released on September 15, 2026, offers enterprise-grade task completion and intelligence. It achieved the #1 spot on Artificial Analysis' Speech to Speech Quality Index with 82.6 and leads in agentic task completion, scoring 68.6% on τ -Voice and 35.1% on Sierra’s τ -Voice-banking benchmark. The model also demonstrates strong reasoning, with 97.7% on Big Bench Audio, all while maintaining a competitive price point among frontier models.