OpenAI has created an assistant to help you get work done anywhere.
On Wednesday, the lab released ChatGPT Voice "on-the-go," bringing its voice models to the web and mobile experiences of its agentic tools. The product builds on GPT-Live, its upgraded voice model, by bringing ChatGPT Voice to its Work and Codex experiences.
OpenAI said that this release allows users to get work done whenever they speak to the model. For instance:
- For those with Pro and Plus plans, users can use Voice in ChatGPT Work on mobile to create docs, decks and spreadsheets, work with connected plugins, draft emails, create sites, and talk to Slack.
- Free and Go users can also use Voice in the chatbot itself to interact with plugins that they've connected to the text model, including tools and connected apps.
- The voice model is also connected to the text model, meaning that text conversations flow as ChatGPT answers vocally, allowing you to switch seamlessly back and forth between voice and text conversations. The company noted that ChatGPT Voice will become more powerful as ChatGPT itself grows more capable.
This update comes a day after the company unveiled the latest versions of its flagship product, GPT-6 Sol and Luna, both coming in cheaper than the models of its biggest competitor, Anthropic.
This expansion to ChatGPT Voice's agentic capabilities also comes as a new competitor emerges: Meta's Muse personal agent is rapidly rising in popularity. According to The Information, Muse has surpassed 500,000 users in the first week, including 250,000 daily active users. Muse is outpacing ChatGPT's early mobile launch.
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OpenAI is feeling pressure on all sides. The company faces pressure from Anthropic to compete both on frontier model development and on enterprise adoption, while Meta has popped up as substantial competition on the consumer side. This update to ChatGPT Voice may actually address both of those fronts. While bringing ChatGPT Voice to platforms like Codex and ChatGPT Work certainly helps with enterprise adoption, bringing the experience to mobile could provide those same agentic capabilities to a far wider audience. That's where Meta's Muse agent is making such rapid progress by making agents easier for the average user to access. Essentially, this substantial update to ChatGPT Voice is trying to bridge the gap between enterprise and consumer adoption.