OpenAI’s GPT-Live suggests the AI race is moving beyond foundation models

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For the better part of the last three years, the artificial intelligence industry has been consumed by one metric, model capability. Every major release has been judged by how well it reasons, writes code, solves mathematics or performs on increasingly obscure benchmark tests. Bigger context windows, higher reasoning scores and lower hallucination rates have become the industry’s equivalent of processor speeds during the early PC era.

That race is beginning to plateau. Foundation models continue to improve, but the gap between the leading players is narrowing. GPT-5.5, Claude, Gemini and other frontier models now compete within increasingly smaller margins of performance. As intelligence becomes less of a differentiator, AI companies are searching for the next competitive frontier.

OpenAI’s launch of GPT-Live provides perhaps the clearest indication yet of where the company believes that frontier lies.

On the surface, GPT-Live appears to be another upgrade to ChatGPT Voice, promising smoother conversations,...

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