July 9, 2026

ChatGPT's Voice Gets a Major Upgrade for More Natural Conversations

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ChatGPT got a huge voice upgrade for more natural chats, and Grok released a smarter new version.

Breaking

ChatGPTChatGPT's voice mode just got a major upgrade.

ChatGPT

You can now have more natural-sounding voice chats, thanks to new voice technology.

The app is better at turn-taking because it can listen while it's speaking, so it will interrupt you less.

The standard voice mode is getting this upgrade, and paid users can access an even more advanced version.

Grok

You can now use a new, more powerful version of the app called Grok 4.5.

It's designed to be better at a wide range of tasks, like helping with coding, research, and office work.

SpaceXAI has released its latest model, Grok 4.5 — the first since the company went public several weeks ago.

Perplexity

Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

Configurable control : Enable/disable and override media types as needed

New max_tokens parameter : Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs

Claude Code

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

Claude

UPDATE: Golden Gate Claude was online for a 24-hour period as a research demo and is no longer available. If you'd like to

On Tuesday, we released a major new research paper on interpreting large language models, in which we began to map out the inner workings of our AI model, Claude 3 Sonnet.

For a short time, we’re making this model available for everyone to interact with.