Product Updates - Gemini Live API GA is now powered by Google's cost-effective thinking model Gemini 2.5 Flash [1] - An experimental version of the Live API powered by Google's native audio offering is available for trial, enabling seamless, emotive, steerable, multilingual dialogue [1] Key Capabilities - The Gemini Live API combined with Pipecat unlocks capabilities for developers, focusing on session management, turn detection, tool use (including async function calls), proactivity, multilinguality, and integration with telephony and other infrastructure [1] - Pipecat extends realtime multimodal capabilities to client-side applications such as customer support agents, gaming agents, and tutoring agents [1] Industry Impact - Pipecat is a widely used, open-source, vendor-neutral voice agent framework supported by NVIDIA, Google, and AWS, and used by hundreds of startups [1] Personnel - Kwindla Kramer (Kwin) from Daily is the originator of Pipecat [1] - Shrestha Basu Mallick is Group Product Manager and product lead for Gemini API at Google DeepMind [1]