Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face

<figure> <img alt="An animated Gemini Live avatar" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Image: Google" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/gemini-live-avatar-animated.png?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,94.893468926603,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">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 <a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-live-with-live-avatar/">"Live Avatar" will lip-sync</a> and show different facial expressions during conversations, but it's currently only available to Gemini Enterprise customers.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">As noted by Google, Live Avatar can transition between the 97 languages it supports "without degrading video fidelity or introducing visual drift." One video shared by Google shows its Live Avatar talking in English and Japanese, with its mouth animation lining up with what it's saying in both languages. It can also pull up information on-screen w …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1000328/google-gemini-ai-live-avatar-face">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>