New Models
Gemini 3.8 Live separates a spoken turn from the work behind it
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking adds background reasoning and async tools, requiring voice-agent clients to track interaction state beyond spoken turns.
Voice Agents
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New Models
GPT-Live-1 brings full-duplex voice to the API, with reasoning delegated behind it
OpenAI releases GPT-Live-1 in the API with full-duplex voice and delegated reasoning, making cancellation, permissions and task-level cost key design concerns.
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New Models
Pipecat releases PhoneLLM, a 3.5B-active model tuned for voice agents
Pipecat's PhoneLLM Alpha 1 is an open 30B MoE with 3.5B active parameters, built for low-latency voice agents and evaluated with the new PhoneBench.
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New Models
Google turns Gemini 3.5 Transcribe into a developer speech stack
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe adds live and file speech-to-text APIs with 85+ languages, vocabulary biasing, diarization, timestamps and smart formatting.
