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Using Codex via the ChapGPT mobile app while out and about this weekend. It’s controlling Codex on a Mac Mini, which is building a native iPhone app. I’m just texting it feedback and it’s sending me fresh TestFlight builds. Wild times!
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saturday morning weekend project for the skiers out there: resort trailmaps, but made 3d with GPT-6 Astra topo.ski
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Just went for a long walk while using ChatGPT Voice with plugins on my phone, and I think it's a more consequential update than it might seem at first glance. On my walk, I talked through my calendar, email, and to-do list. I had ChatGPT read through my emails and triage them. Then, we added items to my to-do list. Then, we reviewed my calendar. By the end of the walk, I'd finished getting organized, and never had to look at a screen once. I've been waiting for this a long time. Yes, you can kind of do this in the ChatGPT desktop app. And I think in Codex remote on the mobile app. But I've never gotten either to work very smoothly or reliably. And I often want to do this when I'm not near my laptop, like when I'm out for a walk, and the ChatGPT desktop app for whatever reason won't connect. This feels like the future. It feels like a true assistant. You have a natural conversation, and it does stuff for you. It disappears into the background. You're not walking down the street with a screen in your face. You're not contorting your thumbs to type sentences and scroll menus. You're just talking, conversationally, and stuff's getting done. My sense is: • Screens are going away for many uses other than visual content consumption. They won't disappear entirely. But they also won't dominate the way they do now, and definitely not for things that can be done verbally. • Apps that aren't agent-native and plugin-optimized will die. I use Google Workspace and Todoist primarily because they're so well-integrated with ChatGPT. I stopped using apps, such as many of Apple's, because with few exceptions they're poorly agent-integrated. (X is a big exception, but I've hacked some integration via IFTTT.) • Those apps, however, will become more valued for what they let agents do than for their in-app experiences. Not all will become essentially databases, but many will. It also seems inevitable to me that at some point OpenAI and other AI app providers roll out native calendar, email, and to-do functionality that's maximally agent-optimized. • We'll have our audio agents on all the time. We may have them on mute sometimes (I discovered you can do this with ChatGPT Voice by clicking an AirPod), but at great cost, because you'll want be able to just say something like "summarize that conversation I just had and then draft the presentation." It will be like having an assistant following you around when you want them to. • We need new hardware. For example, I want a camera in my AirPods not to take pictures, but to have the context of what's around me. Like, "What kind of tree is that?" Or, "That's a cool shirt. Find out where they bought it." (I have this in my Meta Ray-Bans, but people are now very sensitive to those devices because they do take pictures.) I also want ChatGPT able to be always listening or awoken with "hey, Chat." • The individual thread model starts to break down when you're treating ChatGPT like an always-on assistant. We need to have the infinite continuous thread from which ChatGPT can delegate work to subthreads, the central assistant model that Muse is built around. This makes even more sense when you start treating your AI apps like assistants. They should be juggling all those individual threads on your behalf. More to come I'm sure as I continue to experiment.
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We heard you loud and clear. ChatGPT Voice can now: - Use plugins like your email, calendar, and Slack. - Be powered by GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna. - Be used in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile, so you can create docs, decks, sites, and spreadsheets or tackle complex tasks in the browser, just by talking. Rolling out globally today in the latest version of the app.
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OpenAI's superpower is the ability to swiftly assemble an empowered group of highly capable people to work on the most important and urgent thing at any point of time. No one really cares for org lines. It's how we stay nimble, seize opportunities, and recover from mistakes.
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GPT-6 Sol and Luna are out. Not only are they a very significant improvement across the board, but also in writing and general "you know when you try it" quality. We are also permanently reducing the API price by 50% making both of them viable for a ton of new usecases and making your usage go further too, even on the subscriptions. And one more thing. We are loading a banked reset into all accounts of our Plus, Pro and Business users. Let's go! openai.com/index/introducing…
We have been focusing on efficiency and intelligence for all. Very proud of the team. Only possible when you have incredible models at the top end of the capability that you can then use to make a big difference in everything else.
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We were working on the keynote today with @romainhuet and @sama and most of the fun was trying to figure out how to explain it all to you because there is so much good stuff in there that it's a bit ridiculous all in quick succession. We'll have some things next week already to not keep you waiting so long, but very excited to show you all new things we've been working on and how it will all come together in the coming months.
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I made this with Astra in 24 hours It did all the motion graphics, rotoscoping, color grading, blender modelling, sound design and mixing I didn't even need to open davinci
We built a time machine for the web. Introducing Exa Snapshot: an index of 400 billion historical snapshots of webpages that lets you search as if it's the past. Snapshot is already being used for backtesting prediction models, RL at labs, exploring the pre-AI web, and more.
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I asked Astra to create an interactive aquarium wallpaper for my Mac. The fish respond to the cursor!
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What’s the wildest thing you’ve built in 3D with GPT-6 Astra? I’m teaming up with @OpenAIDevs to see what you got. RT and drop a link, render or video in the replies. You’ve got 24 hours.
I fed GPT-6 Astra 9 crappy photos of my studio and it was able to understand the spatial arrangement, stitch them together and create a fully interactive 3D model of the space. Absurd. I'll link it below so you can check it out for yourself:
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Holy shit GPT-6 ASTRA CREATED THIS EDIT
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GPT-6 Astraならできるやろと思ったらできた。iPhoneで3Dスキャンして現実世界をパッチワーク。3Dプリントデータを作るところはAstraにお任せで作ってもらったので点群処理の知識ゼロでできた。驚いたのは私はこれのどこが欠けの部分か指示してないということ。 もしかしたらこれは他社の旧モデルでもできたかもしれない。でもできないと思い込んでた。賢いモデルがでてきて他の人の活用を見ると刺激されて「それなら前に諦めてたこれもできる?」と思えた。こういうのが楽しい。 #astra #3dprinting #scaniverse #3dプリント
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Three months ago, we launched ChatGPT Sites – an easy way for anyone to build and host fully functional, interactive web apps. Since then, people have created over 5M sites. We’ve been listening to your feedback and ICYMI, we’ve launched a few Sites updates: 🫂 Build together: Invite teammates to edit, save, and publish to your shared Site 🔐 Share privately: Invite specific people to a private Site without making it public 🚀 Launch faster: Go from prompt to deployment in half the time 👀 Explore your data: Ask ChatGPT to inspect your Site’s database. Editors can view it, too 🌐 Add your own custom domain
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ChatGPT Image 2.5 has unlocked my dormant illustrator/art director energy. All the illustrations I've ever wanted, now within reach, (almost) exactly as I want them, in my style. I am going ham making illustrations for every slide in this talk. It's visual thinker Christmas.
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RT @deanwball: “I don't really care about science fiction... We need to actually talk about… what's actually happening with the agent swarm…
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Verified U.S. clinicians can get free GPT-6 Astra (Pro) access today via ChatGPT for Clinicians. Sign up: chatgpt.com/plans/clinicians…
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GPT-Live-1 is now available in the API. Bring ChatGPT’s natural back-and-forth to your app, with voice agents that listen while they speak and work with the models and harness you choose.
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Go from idea to a working agent faster with the Agents API. Build and run cloud agents with the Codex harness, fully managed by OpenAI. We handle orchestration, long-running sessions, and context management. You focus on what makes your agent unique. Available in public beta.
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made a little multi-player racing game over the weekend (with astra ofc!). far from perfect, but to the point where i actually enjoy playing it. all made in less than 2 hrs of my time, while out and about on mobile 📱☀️. just a web app hosted on ChatGPT Sites. what an amazing time to be a curious builder! wanted to call out a couple prompting techniques that have been helpful: 1. ask astra to make a few images that represent how you really want the game to look. then when you’re happy with those, use a prompt like “I’d like you to have a critic agent that looks at the current game and compares it to this art style. It will let you know if you’re very close to the style. I’d like you to take on a goal to update the graphics of the game until the critic agent says you’ve achieved this look. You’re the expert on how you can do this”. 2. give rich feedback to the model via video with your voice over. once the game was playable I recorded my iphone screen playing a full race. then I asked astra to build me a simple web app that I could use on my phone to upload a video (the recording) and then voice over it (kind of like a directors commentary) and then get a link to an output video that combines the recording with my commentary. this proved to be super high leverage. I could spend a few minutes pointing out everything I didn’t like about a track, and then astra would just fix it all in one shot 🤯
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ChatGPT Images 2.5—faster, sharper, smarter, with better tools for creating whatever you can dream of. - Faster image generation to keep your ideas flowing - Improved fidelity for more natural, recognizable images - Consistent details across multiple edits - Comment-based edits to change only what you want
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chatgpt is having a chatgpt moment
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