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Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face
The Verge • • general
Key Points:
- Google has introduced the Gemini 3.8 Live update, featuring a "Live Avatar" that enables real-time conversations with an animated AI persona displaying lip-sync and facial expressions, currently exclusive to Gemini Enterprise customers.
- The Live Avatar supports seamless transitions across 97 languages without compromising video quality or causing visual drift, demonstrated by synchronized mouth movements in both English and Japanese.
- The avatar can display information on-screen during conversations and processes visual inputs in near real-time, enhancing interactive communication.
- Google provides a library of preset avatars while also allowing organizations to create custom avatars, with all outputs containing an invisible SynthID watermark and identity protection safeguards.
