Gemini 3.8 & 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Our most advanced Gemini Audio models yet
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Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet, built for natural conversation.
PH · launched Sep 16, 2026 · 213 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: speech and voice ai models · 143 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Bots
- Audio
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Could you build this?
No This is a frontier foundation audio-to-audio multimodal model requiring proprietary supercomputing clusters, novel deep learning research, and petabytes of curated multimodal training data.
What it would actually take: Creating a real-time native speech-to-speech foundation model requires hundreds of millions of dollars in compute (TPUs/GPUs), proprietary multimodal datasets, and world-class AI research scientists. The engineering stack encompasses custom transformer architectures capable of real-time bidirectional audio streaming, custom tokenizers, RLHF/RLAIF alignment, and sub-second latency low-level C++ serving infrastructure.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 138 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #14 of 139 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 310 days after the earliest competitor.
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Live · ph · 2026-03-27 · 320 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Gemini 3.5 Live Translate · ph · 2026-06-10 · 253 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech models · ph · 2026-09-24 · 98 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Interactive Simulations in Gemini · ph · 2026-04-12 · 411 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Gemini 3.5 Transcribe · ph · 2026-08-27 · 229 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- hermes-whatsapp-voice · github · 2026-10-16 · 81 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Google Gemini 3.8 Flash and Cyber · ph · 2026-09-04 · 237 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Gemini Robotics 2.5 · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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