Audio Flamingo 3: How This Open-Source AI Outhears Google Gemini

How Audio Flamingo 3 Redefines AI Hearing: From 1.3B to 7B in 18 Months The open-source audio-language model that’s outperforming giants like Gemini—while using 1/3 the parameters. The Breakthrough That Changed Everything In July 2025, NVIDIA dropped Audio Flamingo 3 (AF3): a 7B-parameter model that understands speech, music, and sounds for up to 10 minutes straight. It crushed Google’s Gemini Pro 1.5 on 20+ benchmarks, achieved 92.7% accuracy on bird-song classification (vs. Gemini’s 71%), and even chats back in real-time voice. Yet here’s the kicker: AF3’s predecessor (Audio Flamingo 1) was just a 1.3B “proof of concept” released in 2024. …