ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode

**OpenAI** rolled out **ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode** with 5 new voices and improved accent and language support, available widely in the US. Ahead of rumored updates for **Llama 3** and **Claude 3.5**, **Gemini Pro** saw a significant price cut aligning with the new intelligence frontier pricing. **OpenAI's o1-preview model** showed promising planning task performance with 52.8% accuracy on Randomized Mystery Blocksworld. **Anthropic** is rumored to release a new model, generating community excitement. **Qwen 2.5** was released with models up to 32B parameters and support for 128K tokens, matching GPT-4 0613 benchmarks. Research highlights include PlanBench evaluation of o1-preview, OpenAI's release of a multilingual MMMLU dataset covering 14 languages, and RAGLAB framework standardizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation research. New AI tools include PDF2Audio for converting PDFs to audio, an open-source AI starter kit for local model deployment, and **Moshi**, a speech-based AI assistant from Kyutai. Industry updates feature **Scale AI** nearing $1B ARR with 4x YoY growth and **Together Compute's** enterprise platform offering faster inference and cost reductions. Insights from **Sam Altman**'s blog post were also shared.