🎙️ EP 356: Gemini 3.8 Live #1 Benchmark & Shanghai AI Lab Releases Atria Dawn

AI Fire Daily · Sep 16, 2026 · 10m · transcript

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Google officially launched Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, introducing real-time background reasoning and asynchronous tool execution to speech-to-speech agents. Meanwhile, Shanghai AI Laboratory released Atria Dawn Preview, an open-weight 256K context model designed to automate entire research and engineering workflows end-to-end.

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Standard and Extended Thinking variants deploying across Google AI Studio and Search, introducing continuous audio…