🛸 No more awkward silences

Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Live and the more capable Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking.

The key upgrade is parallel reasoning: the models can keep a conversation going while they think, talk through what they’re doing and run background tasks through external APIs, instead of going silent on more complex requests.

Benchmarks and the ChatGPT/Grok comparison:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/gemini-3-8-live-vs-openai-xai