India, July 9 -- There is a familiar awkwardness to most AI voice tools. You talk, stop, wait, and hope the system has understood you. Pause for half a second too long, and it may jump in. Interrupt it, and the conversation can feel like two people stepping on each other's lines.

OpenAI's GPT Live is an attempt to fix that problem. More importantly, it shows where artificial intelligence AI interfaces are heading next away from boxed chat windows and closer to live, always moving conversations.

The new voice models GPT Live 1 and GPT Live 1 mini are built to make ChatGPT Voice feel more natural. Paid ChatGPT users will get GPT Live 1 as the default voice model, while free users will get GPT Live 1 mini. But the bigger story is not just ...