Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking is the separately named high-reasoning audio-to-audio tier for live interactions. It spends more computation on background reasoning while handling text, image, audio, and video input and generating text and audio. Asynchronous function calls allow tool-driven work during a session. Integrations must monitor interaction status because completion of a response turn does not necessarily end background processing.
2026-09-15
Unreleased
Undisclosed proprietary architecture
Proprietary
Specifications
- Parameters
- Unreleased
- Architecture
- Undisclosed proprietary architecture
- License
- Proprietary
- Context Window
- 131,072 tokens
- Max Output
- 65,536 tokens
- Type
- multimodal
- Modalities
- textimageaudiovideo
Benchmark Scores
Advanced Specifications
- Model Family
- Gemini
- API Access
- Available
- Chat Interface
- Not Available
- Variants
- gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking
Capabilities & Limitations
- Capabilities
- live conversationnative audio conversationextended background reasoningasynchronous function callingsearch grounding
- Known Limitations
- Voice output and real-time tool calls can contain errors.Live sessions need compatible streaming clients and model-specific turn and interruption handling.
- Notable Use Cases
- complex voice workflowstool-assisted dialoguereasoning-intensive live assistants
- Function Calling Support
- Yes
- Tool Use Support
- Yes