OpenAI Insider: Leadership Fully Backed Full-Duplex Models Despite Long Odds
athyuttamre · x · 2026-08-24
An OpenAI employee with 14 months of tenure revealed that leadership provided full support for full-duplex models (gpt-live series), even when success seemed deeply improbable. This reflects OpenAI's approach to research: as long as it wasn't clear why it shouldn't work, they kept trying. The employee noted that few environments in the world could sustain such a bet.
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