Ex-OpenAI Researcher Reveals Leadership's Full Backing for Full-Duplex Speech Models

A former OpenAI researcher who spent about 14 months at the company revealed that leadership fully backed the full-duplex speech models (the gpt-live series), even when success seemed highly unlikely, reflecting OpenAI's willingness to bet on high-risk frontier research.

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