Jaden Schaefer

This is way beyond chat GPTs, just getting a nicer voice.

There's a bunch of, there's a new report from the information that says that the company has spent the last two months consolidating engineering product research teams to rebuild its AI audio models.

And they're doing this from the ground up.

This is all ahead of

an audio first personal device, which we're expecting to come out in roughly a year from now.

There is a lot going on in the story and a lot is at stake.

So we're going to be covering all of that on the podcast today.

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I'll leave a link in the description if you want to go try that out.

This big focus that we're seeing from OpenAI right now to push audio AI, I think shifts or essentially is kind of showing what's happening in the broader tech world.

Right now, screens are starting to fade into the background.

They're not, you know, the trendiest thing.

Most of these, a lot of these Silicon Valley startups and venture capitalists

A lot of people are talking about how screen time or screen addiction is bad.

And so it feels like people are kind of pushing away from screens.

And with that, audio is kind of taking the forefront.

It feels like this is the response.

There's, of course, smart speakers that have already normalized voice assistance.