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  • Wayfair boosts catalog accuracy and support speed with OpenAI

    Wayfair uses OpenAI models to improve ecommerce support and product catalog accuracy, automating ticket triage and enhancing millions of product attributes at scale.

  • UIDCaption

    Automatic and animated captions, completely offline

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  • Cutsio

    One video asset library shared with your whole team

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  • Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

    Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

    Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar brings real-time visual presence to Gemini’s conversational AI. By natively coupling our live dialogue capabilities with low-latency streaming video, Live Avatar enables a more natural and intuitive conversational experience for enterprises and their users.


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    Research Scientist

    CJ Zheng

    Software Engineer, on behalf of the Gemini Audio Team


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    Building on the momentum of last week’s Gemini 3.8 Live launch, today we are excited to introduce Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar — bringing near real-time visual presence to our native live dialogue models. By pairing near real-time video generation with speech, the Live Avatar feature creates an experience that listens, sees, and speaks with a dynamic visual persona.

    With precise lip-syncing, natural expressions, and fluid turn-taking, Live Avatar enables enterprises to expand their virtual offerings more interactively. Whether providing engaging customer service or delivering interactive walkthroughs, it transforms digital exchanges into richer, more accessible experiences.

    Starting today, Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is available in Gemini Enterprise.

    See how Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar supports a wide range of characters, each with a distinct look, voice, and expressive presence.

    More natural and multimodal conversations

    Conversation is inherently multimodal: we listen, look, speak, and use facial expressions to communicate. Live Avatar brings these capabilities to enterprise agents. By processing visual and audio inputs simultaneously, it generates enriching conversations for a more comprehensive experience.

    Watch how Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar takes in what it sees and hears in near real time, responding with expressive audio and video for a more natural conversation.

    Asynchronous tool execution with continuous presence

    Beyond visual presence, the feature is backed by Gemini’s advanced reasoning. With asynchronous tool calling, Live Avatar can trigger tool calls and fetch data in the background while continuing active dialogue, handling complex tasks while ensuring an uninterrupted conversational flow.

    See how Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar handles complex tasks like checking in a guest at a hotel. Calling tools in the background while the dialogue continues uninterrupted.

    Conversational experiences built for global scale

    Conversational presence should feel natural and not be limited by languages. Live Avatar features native multilingual speech-to-speech synchronization. The feature dynamically adapts its lip-sync and expressions and can seamlessly transition across 97 languages without degrading video fidelity or introducing visual drift.

    Watch how Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar switches between languages mid-conversation, with lip-sync and expressions adapting seamlessly across 97 languages.

    A Live Avatar to fit your brand needs

    Organizations often need distinct visual identities to fit their brand. In addition to a library of diverse, preset avatars, organizations can customize their Live Avatars. From a high-quality reference image, developers can generate a fully animated, responsive avatar while preserving reference likeness, brand styling, or character identity. Custom avatar creation is currently available only through enterprise allowlisting.

    Trust and transparency at its core

    We built Live Avatar with strict safeguards designed to respect identity, and keep AI-generated content transparent. All output generated by our AI products is watermarked with SynthID. This imperceptible watermark is woven directly into the audio and video output, helping to ensure AI-generated content remains detectable to help minimise misinformation and misattribution. To explore our comprehensive approach to safety and responsible deployment, read our model card.

    Get started with Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

    Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is available in Gemini Enterprise. Explore the API documentation to get started.

  • When Raising Prices Is Better Than Cutting Quality

    When Raising Prices Is Better Than Cutting Quality

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    When costs rise, companies often look beyond price increases to protect margins. But cutting product quality, or “skimpflation,” can carry the greatest long-term risk. Across 25

    When faced with cost increases, managers may need to make tough decisions. Generally, there are three options that managers can consider in these situations. One option is to maintain current prices, meaning the firm absorbs the higher costs and settles for lower margins. A second option is to raise prices, passing increased costs to consumers to maintain profit margins. A third option involves indirectly raising prices by reducing what consumers get for the same price.

  • Bob Iger on Power, Succession, and Leading Disney Through Upheaval

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    Longtime Disney CEO Bob Iger sits down with Nitin Nohria, former dean of Harvard Business School, to reflect on what it takes to lead a company as iconic—and complex—as Disney:

    Few executives have had to make as many high-stakes calls, over as many years, as former Disney CEO Bob Iger. In this conversation with former HBS dean Nitin Nohria, Iger shares what he’s learned about the decisions that really belong to the CEO: where to spend your time, when to step into a problem, when to get out of the way, how to shape culture, and how to lead when crisis becomes a constant.

  • How AI Is Changing Communication: Weighing Efficiency with Efficacy

    How AI Is Changing Communication: Weighing Efficiency with Efficacy

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    AI is rapidly changing how top leaders communicate with employees, customers, boards, and each other. In episode 2 of a special four-part series on how AI is changing leadership, we explore how executives can use AI to improve communication without outsourcing the thinking, judgment, and empathy that make it effective. Stanford professor Matt Abrahams and Zapier CEO Wade Foster discuss how leaders are using AI to synthesize information, structure ideas, prepare for difficult conversations, and rehearse for high-stakes moments. They also explain why leaders should be wary of letting AI write everything for them, how overreliance on AI can create a “comprehension gap,” and why preserving a distinctive human voice may become even more important as AI-generated communication becomes ubiquitous. Abrahams is the author of Think Faster, Talk Smarter and host of the podcast Think Fast, Talk Smart. Foster is the cofounder and CEO of Zapier, a software automation company.

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    • Why we need clear rules for when and how AI should be used in workplace communication
    • Why AI could make spontaneous, unscripted communication more valuable
    • Why you should use AI to challenge your assumptions, not just confirm them
    • How leaders can hold on to accountability and authenticity
  • DemoScreen

    Turn product screenshots into a narrated demo video

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  • Kapshot

    Screen recordings that look like you edited them

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  • Kai

    Autonomous assistant designed to handle meetings and email

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