OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens (techcrunch.com)

Interesting that the industry's answer to "we've made you addicted to screens" is "let us listen to you 24/7 instead." The form factor changes but the extraction model stays the same. Local inference is almost good enough that this tradeoff isn't necessary anymore - been working on that opposite thesis at localghost.ai

Sweet, one step closer to "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.”

What happened to focusing on getting a new model instead of products?

Seems like they have got on the struggle bus around the time Ilya left, though probably early and part of why he left