We’re launching Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS ⚡️ Our most expressive audio models yet let you create custom voices across 100+ languages or pick from 2,000+ ready-to-use ones. You can direct back-and-forth conversations, guide the delivery line-by-line, and add natural cues like <laughs> or an active listening interjection like |mhm| all while generating hours of consistent, glitch-free audio. Sounds pretty cool, right? So… how should you use them? — Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS: Need to design bespoke vocal personas from scratch and with line-by-line level control? This is the model! Built for high-fidelity creative production like gaming, immersive audiobooks, and podcasts. — Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS: Want the AI to automatically adjust its tone and pacing on the fly for near real-time voice agents? This is your engine! Built for cost-efficient scale, high-volume dubbing, and bulk audio creation.

Introducing our most advanced Gemini Audio models yet 🗣 Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking let you speak, collaborate, and execute tasks seamlessly, meaning conversing with AI just got a lot more natural. So, what’s the difference between these two models? Let’s break it down: — Gemini 3.8 Live is built for scale, speed, and cost efficiency. It can handle mid-sentence interruptions, transitions across 97 languages on the fly, and understands visual context. Figure out how to fix a broken bike chain, or deal with a leaky pipe just by pointing your camera at the problem area in Search Live for step-by-step audio instructions. — Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking goes one step further to bring increased intelligence to your most complex tasks. It reasons and speaks in parallel, even narrating its progress as it works. This lets it handle multi-step, behind-the-scenes projects, like planning an event, without ever losing the conversational flow. Watch how Gemini 3.8 Live combines real-time video and voice inputs in Search Live to tackle hands-on DIY plumbing tasks step by step 👇

Oh, so this is why we mapped out all 166,000 of the male fruit fly's neurons. Check out the big community effort to show just how much these tiny fly brains are capable of 🪰🧵

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Our @GoogleResearch Connectomics team, in collaboration with @HHMIJanelia, has released the complete wiring diagram of a male fruit fly’s brain and central nervous system — the largest brain map by number of proofread neurons to date. So, why do we care so much about a tiny fly's brain? 🧵👇

What makes this specific brain map such a massive leap forward? Our new connectome maps over 166,000 neurons and 125 million connections, and it extends beyond the brain to include the nerve cord, which is analogous to our spinal cord. By comparison, our 2020 hemibrain connectome project with partners, a 3D reconstruction of a portion of the female fruit fly's brain, mapped just 25,000 neurons and 20 million connections. Plus, having complete maps for both sexes is a game-changer. It finally allows researchers to pinpoint exact structural differences and study how they drive specific biological behaviors.