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Posted by leumon 1 day ago

Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking(blog.google)
483 points | 322 commentspage 2
johnsmith1840 1 day ago|
3.8 is an incredible model even better is the infrs they host for it.

Is this a pure TPU infra? Really high performance solid intelligence.

artdigital 1 day ago||
Even if really great, it still can’t use tools. The only consumer Google thing with access to MCP tools is Gemini Spark and that has lots of other problems. I wish they would combine their efforts on a great consumer product but it’s Google we’re talking about…

I still dream of the day that we get full tool parity in voice and text mode so your voice assistant can do everything you connect for you. Grok and Claude are btw almost there, only a very few minor built-in tools don’t exist in voice mode, but I already use both to connect to heaps of things! It’s so valuable to verbally discuss something with an agent, have the agent pull in context from GitHub, Notion, email, and then create artifacts somewhere

yoavm 1 day ago|
Note sure what you mean by "tools". It does support function calling, so you can hook it to whatever tools you want. I'm using it with Home Assistant to control my smart home devices.
artdigital 22 hours ago||
I mean the consumer Gemini app. It has no way to connect MCP servers to it. Only Spark can, if you switch your Gemini to the separate Spark mode
svcrunch 1 day ago||
If you'd like to experiment with Gemini 3.8 Live on a US telephone number, you can try Wokay [0]. It's an agentic memory demonstration that's built with LiveKit and Gemini. Tel: 408–897–4019

[0] https://wokay.goodmem.ai/info

samuelknight 1 day ago||
I have been looking for a model that's good for GUI testing. Original computer use isn't right because it's a slow screenshot loop, which doesn't capture transition and animation. Docs says this one does up to 1 FPS. That might be fast enough. If not now, we must be within a few months of high enough sample rates to do it.
TomGarden 1 day ago|
I find just letting a model record a video it can read frame by frame later works fine, Gemini 3.8 flash would be solid for that
ha-shine 22 hours ago||
The voices sound really pleasant and realistic. Sadly it doesn't support SIP. I found forwarding streams with websocket for phone calls tend to introduce some unwanted latency that's quite noticeable in a conversation. I've found a lot of success with GPT-live-1 so far, but the generated voices are lacking something I can't put my finger on.
mattstir 22 hours ago|
What's your use-case for automating phone calls?
chrystianpl 1 day ago||
It is completely broken for me. After I ask a single question, it starts replying to itself in an infinite loop. It answers my question, then generates another reply to its own response, and keeps going. At some point, it even starts switching languages randomly.
jeffbee 1 day ago|
Older versions also do that.
smithcoin 1 day ago||
Did anybody watch the Primeagen's video on Google bag-fumbling? Interesting they released on the same day!
melasadra 1 day ago||
I'm curious to know how do people in FAANG / Bay Area tech industry see influencers like Primeagen, Theo or Casey Muratori.

Do they have a good read on the industry or completely out of touch? Or to put it simply, are they spouting bullshit?

My concern is that some of them arent in the industry or have never been in it.

tonyhart7 1 day ago||
well, its because gemini is sucks at coding
qudat 1 day ago||
I’ve noticed antigravity become significantly slower over the last week or so. It’s a bummer because speed is what I care about. Qwen3.8-27b seems on par with 3.8 flash so if I don’t get speed out of a paid service I’ll just use my local model. Sad.
bengkoang 1 day ago||
i've been using gemini (api & pro) since last november last year. for creative writing compared to other llm, it's the best in capturing local nuance, it can even create jokes in my languages. But that just it, i cant rely on other work, hallucinate too often, the deep research are not reliable at all. Too many discussion i've had that it grasp main concept consistent but the supporting concept just plain hallucinate and not consistent. it's tested between pro & flash. This doesnt happen often on open weigh
rrr_oh_man 1 day ago|
I swear all day long I was thinking that there will be a new release soon because Gemini 3.1 Pro performance was in the crapper (both via API and Chat)
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