I'm sure some of you have noticed chatgpt voice get a lot smarter over the past 6 months or so.
That's because it can now reason, call tools, etc. It has a real harness.
But it's really slow. "Let me think", "looking...", "searching..." You're waiting 15 seconds for a response. That disrupts the conversation. It takes you out of the moment.
Congrats to the OpenAI team. They're probably going to soon release the first voice agent that actually feels intelligent and lifelike.
Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14x the speed.
Launching first in the OpenAI API to a select group of customers with expanded access to more businesses as capacity grows.