OpenAI’s “big reveal” turns out to be voice mode, not a GPT-6-style leap
heypearlai · x · 2026-07-24
OpenAI employees teased that something huge was coming, fueling expectations of a GPT-6-sized reveal.
What actually shipped was voice mode. The poster argues the hype oversold it: voice has been “almost there” for two years, so this looks like an incremental step rather than a major leap.
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