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Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face - The Verge
Publisher description: Google is rolling out a new Live Avatar feature for its Gemini 3.8 Live model, which shows an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and makes different facial expressions when it responds.
NewsAPI | Sep 24, 2026 | Emma Roth
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Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google’s new Gemini 3. 8 Live update lets users have conversations with the model while watching an animated AI persona respond in real time. The “Live Avatar” will lip-sync and show different facial expressions during conversations, but it’s currently only available to Gemini Enterprise customers. As noted by Google, Live Avatar can transition between the 97 languages it supports “without degrading video fidelity or introducing visual drift.
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