FrontierThe story, in brief
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live to take on OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 at a fraction of the cost
Google's Gemini 3.8 Live tops the speech-to-speech leaderboard at $1.38/hour — undercutting OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 by an order of magnitude.
The KeyNews take
Why it matters
Google ships a frontier audio model that leads public benchmarks and undercuts OpenAI on price, reshaping the economics of voice-native AI for developers. This is lab-race capability timing and pricing pressure in real time.
The key facts
5 to knowGemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking released
Tops Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech leaderboard
Pricing: $1.38 per hour of voice conversation
OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 undercut on cost; OpenAI still claims natural-sounding advantage (full duplex)
Audio/voice capability now a direct competitive axis between frontier labs
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Publisher excerpt: Google Deepmind released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new audio models for developers that top the Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech leaderboard. At $1.38 per hour of voice conversation, Google significantly undercuts OpenAI's GPT-Live-1, which should still sound more…