Gemini 3.8 Live on AI Gateway: ship realtime voice with visual grounding

UpdatedSeptember 16, 2026

Production builders shipping voice and realtime apps just got a cleaner path: Google's Gemini 3.8 Live models are live on Vercel AI Gateway, so you can open a realtime audio session over a Gateway WebSocket instead of wiring provider-specific voice infra yourself. The changelog ships two model IDs — google/gemini-3.8-live and google/gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking — both aimed at spoken interactions for voice assistants, conversational UIs, and apps that answer in audio.

What changed is the surface area you own. Realtime audio, visual grounding, automatic switching across 97 languages, and background tool calls while the conversation continues are available through the AI SDK's realtime API on AI Gateway.

This is an excerpt. Read the full post at otf-kit.dev/blog/gemini-3-8-live-ai-gateway — full-stack kits your AI coding agent can actually ship to production. Browse the kits →

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