OpenAI’s Voice Mode is finally here!

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

After a multi-month wait, OpenAI finally announced that Advanced Voice Mode is rolling out to all ChatGPT Plus and Team subscribers this week (outside of the EU).

But with no current o1 integration, image upload option, or live video, will it live as much as the hype? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode

• Google releases production-ready models

• Customize images fast with PuLID-FLUX

• James Cameron joins Stability AI’s board

• 6 recent AI tools & 4 recent AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🗣️ OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode

The Rundown: OpenAI is finally rolling out an enhanced Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) to all ChatGPT Plus and Teams subscribers this week, featuring recent voices and improved functionality to make AI interactions feel more natural and personalized.

The main points:

• The initial rollout for OpenAI’s recent Advanced Voice Mode began in July, but it surely only ever reached a select few ChatGPT users.

• In the course of the delay, OpenAI updated its AVM to integrate Custom Instructions and Memory, allowing for more personalized interactions and conversation recall.

• OpenAI also improved AVM’s ability to grasp accents and claims smoother, faster conversations, while adding five recent nature-inspired voices (and removing the “Sky” voice that seemed like Scarlett Johansson).

• AVM won’t yet be available in several regions, including the EU, the UK, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein.

Why it matters: With OpenAI CEO Sam Altman writing about AI agents and superintelligence, ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode feels more relevant than ever. If we’re going to interact with AI on daily basis—it has to sound and feel human—which is strictly what AVM is attempting to perform.

Editors note: When you still don’t have access to Advanced Voice Mode in your ChatGPT app, try uninstalling and reinstalling the app.

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GOOGLE

✨ Google releases production-ready models

The Rundown: Google just announced significant updates to its Gemini AI models, including performance improvements, cost reductions, and increased accessibility for developers.

The main points:

• Two recent production-ready models got here out today: Gemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-002, offering improved quality across various tasks, including a 20% boost in math-related benchmarks.

• Pricing for Gemini 1.5 Pro has been reduced by over 50% for each input and output on prompts under 128K tokens, while rate limits have been increased significantly.

• The models boast 2x faster output and 3x lower latency in comparison with previous versions, with improvements in long context understanding and vision capabilities.

• Google also updated its default filter settings, giving developers more control over model configuration for his or her specific use cases.

Why it matters: Google is iterating quickly and pushing the boundaries of affordability for developers constructing with AI. While this isn’t Gemini 2 — it’s a big upgrade over the experimental models and can help builders create faster, smarter, cheaper applications.

AI TRAINING

🖼️ Customize images fast with PuLID-FLUX

The Rundown: Hugging Face’s recent PuLID-Flux space offers a tuning-free solution for quick image customization along with your own likeness using only one reference photo.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit PuLID-Flux Hugging Face space (also available in Replicate)

2. Upload your reference image within the “ID Image” section

3. Play with different parameters it offers and write a descriptive prompt to your desired output

4. Click “Generate” and refine as needed

Pro tip: Adjust the “timestep to begin inserting ID” parameter to balance fidelity and creativity.

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STABILITY AI

🎥 James Cameron joins Stability AI’s board

The Rundown: James Cameron, the acclaimed director of Titanic, Avatar, and The Terminator, recently joined the board of directors at Stability AI, the corporate behind the favored Stable Diffusion text-to-image AI model.

The main points:

• Cameron, known for pushing technological boundaries in filmmaking, sees the convergence of generative AI and CGI as “the following wave” in visual media creation.

• Stability AI’s CEO, Prem Akkaraju, formerly led visual effects company WETA Digital, highlighting the firm’s deal with creative applications of AI.

• The move comes as Hollywood grapples with AI’s potential, with some studios embracing the technology while others express concerns over content rights.

Why it matters: Just days after Lionsgate teamed up with AI startup Runway to create a custom video generation model, this move by one in all Hollywood’s biggest directors could signal a big shift in how influential filmmakers are fascinated about navigating AI.

NEW TOOLS & JOBS

Trending AI Tools

• 🎨 Adobe GenStudio – Helps marketing teams measure on-brand content

• 🔎 FactBot by Snopes – Fact-checking for urban legends and misinformation

• 💸 JustPaid – Automate invoice follow-ups and payment tracking

• 💻 ell – A light-weight prompt engineering framework for language models

• 🧪 Pathway – Helps product teams test UX solutions and gather insights

• 🎥 Tubit AI – AI that summarizes YouTube videos for a deeper understanding

Recent AI Job Opportunities

• 👥 People.ai – HR Coordinator

• 🧠 UiPath – Chief of Staff / Technical Advisor

• ✅ Tempus – Quality Assurance Associate

• 🛠️ DeepL – Engineering Manager

QUICK HITS

Warner Bros. Discovery adopted Google Cloud’s AI for caption generation, aiming to chop production time and costs for unscripted programming.

Intel launched Xeon 6 processors and Gaudi 3 AI accelerators, doubling performance for AI workloads and offering improved price and performance in comparison with Nvidia’s H100.

OpenAI increased API access for o1 models, adding tier 4 to the list of authorized users at 100 requests per minute and upping tier 5 users to 1000 requests per minute.

Suno AI announced a brand new cropping feature available to AI-generated songs, allowing Pro and Premier users to regulate the beginning and end of their creations.

Duolingo introduced AI-powered Adventures mini-games and a Video Call feature to reinforce language learning through immersive, practical experiences for its users.

Apple unveiled its plan to roll out Siri’s major AI-powered updates step by step, with probably the most significant enhancements expected in iOS 18.3, likely launching in January 2025.

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