Gemini 3.8 Live gets major visual upgrade with new avatar feature

Google has rolled out Gemini 3.8 Live with Live avatar today, a feature that adds near real-time generated video to the speech of its interactive conservational agents and made it generally available in Gemini Enterprise with endpoints in the United States and European Union.

According to the Google Cloud post by Fabien Blanc-Paques, the release is primarily offered through US and EU endpoints under provisioned capacity mode with strict data governance.

Enterprise customers can try the model in the Gemini Enterprise console, incorporate it through the Gemini Live API documentation and review pricing on Google Cloud’s pricing page.

Google Cloud tells customers to engage with sales reps for dedicated resource allocation, customized deployment architectures and custom-avatar allowlisting. Google Cloud advises customers to begin implementation for tailored infrastructure designs.

The Gemini 3.8 Audio model card shows that the models are based on Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini 3.8 Live accepts audio, images, video and text with a maximum amount of data of up to 128K tokens and with Live Avatar it outputs audio, video and text subject to a maximum 24K-token output limit.

The model card states that the Live Avatar emphasizes the creation of full-head rotational dynamics alongside phonetic alignment driven by configured images and audio inputs and that it supports a few minutes of continuous engagement rather than extended hours.

Marianne Johnson, executive vice president and chief product officer of Cox Automotive said in a Google Cloud statement, “ Shoppers increasingly expect to describe what they need in their own words rather than work through filters and menus. Autotrader’s new conversational AI Avatar brings that experience to vehicle discovery by matching natural conversation to the right inventory.”