{"slug": "gemini-3-8-live-with-live-avatar-gives-googles-ai-a-face", "title": "Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face", "summary": "Google released Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, an update that lets users hold real-time conversations with an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and shows facial expressions, available only to Gemini Enterprise customers. Google said the Live Avatar transitions between the 97 languages it supports without degrading video fidelity or introducing visual drift, and a company video showed the avatar speaking English and Japanese with mouth animation matching both languages.", "body_md": "# Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face\n\nBy Emma RothSource: \n\n[The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com)\nGoogle's new [Gemini](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/gemini) 3.8 Live update lets users have conversations with the model while watching an animated AI persona respond in real time. The [\"Live Avatar\" will lip-sync](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-live-with-live-avatar/) and show different facial expressions during conversations, but it's currently only available to Gemini Enterprise customers.\n\nAs noted by Google, Live Avatar can transition between the 97 languages it supports \"without degrading video fidelity or introducing visual drift.\" One video shared by Google shows its Live Avatar talking in English and Japanese, with its mouth animation lining up with what it's saying in both languages. It can also pull up information on-screen w …\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-8-live-with-live-avatar-gives-googles-ai-a-face", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/gemini-38-live-with-live-avatar-gives-googleand8217s-ai-a-fa-29gq", "published_at": "2026-09-24 19:59:26+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-24 20:31:42.161280+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["Google", "Gemini 3.8 Live", "Live Avatar", "Gemini Enterprise", "Emma Roth", "The Verge"], "also_reported_by": [{"url": "https://cryptobriefing.com/googles-gemini-38-live-update-adds-real-time-ai-avatars-for-enterprises/", "source": "cryptobriefing.com", "title": "Google’s Gemini 3.8 Live update adds real-time AI avatars for enterprises", "published_at": "2026-09-24T20:02:41+00:00"}], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-8-live-with-live-avatar-gives-googles-ai-a-face", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-8-live-with-live-avatar-gives-googles-ai-a-face.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-8-live-with-live-avatar-gives-googles-ai-a-face.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-8-live-with-live-avatar-gives-googles-ai-a-face.jsonld"}}