Google announced that Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available in Gemini Enterprise, featuring video avatars with synchronized lip-syncing, native speech-to-speech dialogue, multilingual support for 97 languages, and live visual understanding. The technology includes security measures like SynthID watermarks and enterprise allowlisting for custom avatars, with customers like Cox Automotive already using it to build conversational AI agents.
Gladia, a Paris-based speech-to-text AI company, is joining OVH Groupe to accelerate European sovereign AI capabilities. Gladia will maintain its independence as a product line while gaining access to OVH's infrastructure across 46 data centers, enabling lower-latency transcription and deeper EU data residency guarantees. The acquisition follows OVHcloud's earlier purchase of OVHai LLM, building a full-stack European AI ecosystem.