ChatGPT's Voice Gets a Major Upgrade for More Natural Conversations

ChatGPT got a huge voice upgrade for more natural chats, and Grok released a smarter new version.

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ChatGPTChatGPT's voice mode just got a major upgrade.

ChatGPT

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You can now have more natural-sounding voice chats, thanks to new voice technology.

ChatGPT's voice mode just got a major upgrade.

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The app is better at turn-taking because it can listen while it's speaking, so it will interrupt you less.

ChatGPT's voice mode just got a major upgrade.

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The standard voice mode is getting this upgrade, and paid users can access an even more advanced version.

ChatGPT's voice mode just got a major upgrade.

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Grok

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You can now use a new, more powerful version of the app called Grok 4.5.

SpaceXAI has released its latest model, Grok 4.5 — the first since the company went public several weeks ago.

The company released benchmark metrics Wednesday that appeared to show Grok’s competitiveness with other top models from SpaceXAI competitors, although just short of best-in-class: It's designed to be better at a wide range of tasks, like helping with coding, research, and office work.

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Perplexity

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Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Configurable control: Enable/disable and override media types as needed New max_tokens parameter: Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs.

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Claude Code

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The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

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Claude

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UPDATE: Golden Gate Claude was online for a 24-hour period as a research demo and is no longer available. If you'd like to

UPDATE: Golden Gate Claude was online for a 24-hour period as a research demo and is no longer available. If you'd like to find out more about our research on interpretability and the activation of features within Claude, please see this p…

On Tuesday, we released a major new research paper on interpreting large language models, in which we began to map out the inner workings of our AI model, Claude 3 Sonnet.

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In this post, we are sharing what we have learned about the trajectory of potential national security risks from frontier AI models, along with some of our thoughts about challenges and best practices in evaluating these risks.

The informa…

While AI capabilities are advancing quickly in many areas, it's important to note that real-world risks depend on multiple factors beyond AI itself.

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At the end of the project, we now have more experiments and evaluations we’d like to run than we started with.

For example, we think a very important experiment to repeatedly run will be to measure the speedup that LLMs might provide towar…

This empirical work confirms that frontier threats red teaming in areas of national security is important and timely.

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