Introducing GPT‑Live

This article discusses OpenAI's launch of GPT-Live, a significant upgrade to ChatGPT's voice mode. The new model, GPT-5.5, handles complex tasks like web search and reasoning by delegating them to a frontier model while maintaining conversational flow. The author shares their preview experience, noting improvements over the previous GPT-4o era model, including better brainstorming capabilities. They also mention a bug where the model laughed inappropriately, which OpenAI reportedly fixed. The article highlights the model's ability to sustain long conversations and its continuous updates with new frontier models.