Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google's AI a face
Bubble signal: 0 · NeutralRelevance 32ModelsUS
Source: The Verge AI · Published 2026-09-24
Summary
Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users converse with the model while watching an animated AI persona respond in real time. The "Live Avatar" lip-syncs and shows different facial expressions, but is currently limited to Gemini Enterprise customers. Google says it can switch between the 97 supported languages without degrading video fidelity or causing visual drift.
Bubble analysis
This is a product feature launch at the model-capability layer; it carries no capex, valuation or funding figures, so it offers almost no direct evidence on whether AI is in an investment bubble. At most it shows model vendors are still iterating, but says nothing about the gap between spending and revenue.
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