Microsoft has pushed a major real‑time audio milestone into the Azure stack: gpt‑realtime, a speech‑to‑speech (S2S) model optimized for low‑latency, natural‑sounding conversational agents, is now generally available on Azure AI Foundry and accessible through the Real‑time API for developers and...
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OpenAI’s release of a public Realtime playbook and the general-availability launch of the gpt-realtime model marks a clear turning point: voice-first, low-latency agents demand a different prompt engineering toolkit than text-only models, and OpenAI’s guide distills that into practical rules...
OpenAI’s highly anticipated corporate restructuring has been pushed off the immediate calendar as last‑ditch negotiations with Microsoft over API access, intellectual property (IP) rights and a disputed “AGI clause” remain unresolved, forcing a delay that could push the overhaul into next year...