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Product news: GPT-Live-1 API gives language-learning designers more control over pauses and turn-taking

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AI Product and Learning Report

OpenAI released GPT-Live-1 through its API on September 10, with simultaneous listening and speaking, interruption handling, and delegated reasoning. This September 14 report focuses on language-learning design. An early Speak account suggests fewer interruptions, but does not establish improved proficiency. Anthropic's continuity features and Gemini's Guided Learning provide useful contrasts: good assistance must leave learners room to formulate an answer, revise it, and decide when they need help.