OpenAI’s biggest announcement on Monday may be a voice assistant that is reportedly in development.
According to informationOpenAI is working on technology that combines audio, text and image recognition into one product that can facilitate children with math homework or “give people information about their surroundings,” such as translating or helping with car breakdowns.
On Friday, OpenAI announced it would host the event live broadcast next Monday (especially the day before Google I/O, Google’s developer conference). While this was initially expected to be an announcement about the ChatGPT search engine or the unveiling of GPT-5, CEO Sam Altman shot down those rumors and posted on X: “We’ve been working demanding on some recent things that we think people will love!” That recent development could be an assistant voice.
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Last September, OpenAI introduced voice and image capabilities, claiming that “ChatGPT can now see, hear and speak.” (Side note: ChatGPT technically cannot Down any of these things because it is not a living being but can process images and sound in real time, mimicking human senses.)
In the announcement, OpenAI demonstrated ChatGPT’s ability to troubleshoot a bicycle seat and utilize synthetic voices to casually converse with the user rather than providing text responses. The facility said the recent model will combine these modalities.
The Information notes that voice assistant is currently too gigantic to run on personal devices, but a cloud-based service could be implemented for customer service agents that could recognize when a customer is being sarcastic.
However, once this technology is in the hands of users, its transformative potential becomes clear.
Speaking of which, OpenAI is reportedly in talks with Apple about it ChatGPT integration with iOS 18, which the public expects to hear more about at Apple’s WWDC developer conference in June. At the same time, Apple plans to thoroughly modernize its Siri per voice assistant Recent York Times.
If that wasn’t enough, Google is expected to announce the Gemini updates at the Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday. Google is also reportedly in talks with Apple to bring Gemini to the iPhone. So despite OpenAI’s close ties to Microsoft, reports of deepening ties with Apple – even though Apple is also reportedly in talks with Google – raise the possibility that generative AI is helping build interconnected super-entities with uneasy alliances.
But whatever happens at Google I/O and Apple WWDC will come after OpenAI’s mysterious announcement on Monday.
