Voice agents have a latency problem that shows up as soon as they have to do real work. Within five days, Google and OpenAI shipped two very different fixes. On Tuesday, Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, just five days after OpenAI released GPT-Live-1. Both let a voice agent keep talking while it works in the background, but they go about it very differently. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking keeps reasoning inside the voice model, letting it continue speaking while it executes asynchronous tool calls. OpenAI...

Source: The New Stack