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Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 5, 2026Published at 1:48 AM EDT · New York

OpenAI Details the Architecture Behind GPT-Live's Overlapping Speech

The company removed the turn detector from the live audio path, letting the model decide many times per second whether to speak, listen, pause or hand a hard question to GPT-5.5.

OpenAI Details the Architecture Behind GPT-Live's Overlapping Speech

OpenAI has set out how GPT-Live produces conversations in which the model and the user can speak at the same time. The account was summarized by the AI Post channel, which noted that the system listens and speaks continuously instead of wai…

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The Inference-Cost Efficiency Race

Techniques that cut tokens generated and KV-cache memory per query will keep compressing the marginal cost of serving reasoning models, making inference efficiency a recurring competitive axis alongside raw capability.

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