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EP21: The new AI stack — Claude Fable plans, GPT5.6 builds, Grok 4.5 grinds
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Talks to Timmy more than her husband
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Rik plays the ChatGPT Live announcement video — complete with a grandmother knitting a sweater — and Ben takes it for a live spin. The technical leap is real: GPT Live One is the first ChatGPT voice model to be fully full-duplex, meaning it listens and speaks simultaneously rather than taking turns. Ben clocks the latency at under one second for almost every question. [1] — Ben Broch "She tells me she talks to Timmy all the time, all the time. She gets advice about relationships, what she should cook for dinner. Her husba…" 32:47 When you ask it something requiring web search, latency spikes — but for anything in-training, it's near-instantaneous. The demo is charming and slightly chaotic — the model has never heard of any of the hosts — but the anecdote that lands hardest is Ben's: his aunt named her ChatGPT 'Timmy,' talks to it constantly for relationship advice and dinner suggestions, and her husband reports she talks to Timmy more than she talks to him. The hosts call it 'dangerous territory' and move on.
OpenAI audited SWE-Bench Pro and found 30% of tasks are broken, then retracted it as a leading coding eval — right before shipping GPT-5.6 Soul. Ben raised the obvious conflict: was it GPT-5.6 that found the flaws in the benchmark it was being tested on?
Ben measured ChatGPT's new full-duplex live voice model responding in under one second in nearly every query, a dramatic improvement over previous generation voice AI.
