Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face

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.

Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face By Emma RothSource: The Verge AI https://www.theverge.com Google'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. As 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 … Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI.