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Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

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rdtsc58 minutes ago

I wonder when/if we’ll see Gemini beating Fable and Astra. Last year I would have confidently bet Google will overtake the others just because they have the data, the hardware (TPUs) and a fat advertising money pipe and yet they are still behind. Anyone anonymous at Google want to hint when Gemini 4 will be out?

_s_a_m_56 minutes ago

If Google didnt have their ad buisness theiy'd be out by now. They're like BlackBerry and Nokia at this point almost.

blovescoffee50 minutes ago

Great tech but the voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me

Zsfe510asG1 hour ago

Gemini is underrated in that it produces the only prose that is somewhat bearable to read.

WarmWash56 minutes ago

For heavyweight work I have been using Astra, but for rabbit holes and brain storming Gemini is far more enjoyable to interact with.

I'm worried in their push to catch up on the SOTA front, it's going to lose that natural sounding touch it currently has.

deviation1 hour ago

Not a great impression to have your demo video demonstrate how one of your 'most advanced' AI models loses to the most common check-mate pattern in all of chess.

monroewalker54 minutes ago

Seems more than good enough for a live model though! I can imagine this demo being extended to be a lot nicer to play with. You can just feed the model engine analysis and it can make as high of quality moves as needed. No longer any correlation between the model's understanding of the position and the moves that would be made but I think that's still a really nice improvement when thinking about this as adding live voice interaction to existing chess vs computer functionality rather than adding chess to possible interactions with the latest live voice model.

sahaskatta1 hour ago

Our company's Google Workspace Business only offers 3.6 flash & thinking in the Gemini App. Has anyone else seen 3.7 or 3.8 roll out?

cnobody54 minutes ago

I have access to both, benchmarks are actually better on 3.7 for my task, but happy improvement over the others.

doodlesdev1 hour ago

Gemini's Live Mode is already much better than GPT Voice in my personal experience, even though it was much dumber. It really does feel like talking to a real person. ChatGPT keeps humming to whatever I say and has some weird voices.

Excited to try this out! Shame on Google for not releasing Gemini 3.8 for Google AI Plus users yet, though.

attels331 hour ago

When will it be available on Vertex?

SomeonesAccount59 minutes ago

vertex is dead, for good reason too

tiahura53 minutes ago

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varispeed1 hour ago

"Thinking" Good one.