Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
grounding — Tying a model's answers to checkable sources — retrieved documents, live data, tool results — instead of letting it answer from memory alone.
Why it matters
Gemini 3.8 Live and its Extended Thinking variant add background tool-calling and parallel multi-step reasoning to real-time voice, available now via the Gemini API, Workspace, and the Gemini app.
