{"slug": "google-releases-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking-with-audio-to-audio", "title": "Google releases Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking with audio-to-audio capabilities", "summary": "Google released Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking with audio-to-audio capabilities alongside the Gemini 3.8 Live base model, according to the company's AI blog. The release adds extended reasoning modes and direct audio input-output handling for multi-turn agent interactions.", "body_md": "# Google releases Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking with audio-to-audio capabilities\n\nAccording to Google's AI blog, the company released Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking with audio-to-audio capabilities and Gemini 3.8 Live base model. The release includes extended reasoning modes and direct audio input-output handling for multi-turn agent interactions.\n\n## Topics\n\n## Sources\n\n-   Official   [Read article](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-live-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking/)  \n-   Official   [Read article](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking)  \n\n## Go deeper\n\nThis intelligence is sourced automatically from public sources across the web and synthesised by the Prefactor AI pipeline. Stories are reviewed before publication.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-releases-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking-with-audio-to-audio", "canonical_source": "https://www.getreadyforagents.com/news/google-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking/", "published_at": "2026-09-16 20:05:54+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-16 20:23:07.924381+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "generative-ai", "ai-agents", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Google", "Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking", "Gemini 3.8 Live"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-releases-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking-with-audio-to-audio", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-releases-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking-with-audio-to-audio.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-releases-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking-with-audio-to-audio.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-releases-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking-with-audio-to-audio.jsonld"}}