okay, enough openai criticism for a second (still gonna give product feedback when it’s deserved). it’s been a little too easy. i’ve been using gpt live a lot, like a lot lot, & it’s genuinely fucking amazing. the feature to let the model speak like a human “hmm”, “let me check”, brief pauses, & natural turn taking while calling a bigger model or searching or using tools in the background is a fantastic execution. almost all of my conversations have been nothing but pleasant, i can’t describe the feeling but it’s i think a little too good at this point. nothing else is particularly close in this category right now at all. anthropic’s voice experience still feels very very underbaked (after thought really), & gemini’s personality & intelligence seem lacking. & since it’s already reaching an enormous user base, every great gpt live interaction makes people more confident in ai as a product category instead of walking away thinking ai is a gimmick. really great work.