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ChatGPT’s Mac app is here, but its flirty advanced voice mode has been delayed
OpenAI needs another month to work on it.
Now, OpenAI says it will “need one more month to reach our bar to launch” an alpha version of the new voice mode to a small group of ChatGPT Plus subscribers, with plans to allow access for all Plus customers in the fall. OpenAI had said it would deliver the new capabilities in “the coming weeks.” Now, the company writes that “Exact timelines depend on meeting our high safety and reliability bar.” The assistant features bearing a troublesome resemblance to Johansson’s virtual character in the movie Her were part of OpenAI’s demo, showing how the GPT-4o-powered bot could observe the world around the user and respond to it in real time.
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