Google gave Gemini a face, and its sneakier than you think

Google's new Live Avatar feature gives Gemini a face: a human, a cartoon, whatever a company wants. It can see you, talk to you in 97 languages, and never breaks character. Here's why those friendly, cutesy faces might be the most effective data-gathering tool yet.

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Timecode chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:13 Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
0:27 How Live Avatars work and enterprise features
1:02 Hotel check-in demo
1:33 Cat advice and live video feed demo
2:16 Cartoon and character avatars
2:38 Data privacy and ethical concerns
3:32 Multilingual support and SynthID safeguards
3:54 The future of AI avatars

Video credits
Host: Iyaz Akhtar
Scripted by: Iyaz Akhtar
Producer: Iyaz Akhtar, JD Christison
Camera: John Schwartz
Video editor: JD Christison
Thumbnail designer: Cole Kan

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