Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live to take on OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 at a fraction of the cost

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Google Deepmind released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new audio models for developers that top the Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech leaderboard. At $1.38 per hour of voice conversation, Google significantly undercuts OpenAI's GPT-Live-1, which should still sound more natural thanks to full duplex. The article Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live to take on OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 at a fraction of the cost appeared first on The Decoder .

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