Mods Are Asleep. Quick, Everyone Release AI Products

The turmoil at OpenAI over the past five days has captivated the tech industry and kept entrepreneurs, journalists, and anyone who still has an X account glued to their timelines for the latest emoji updates and lower-case missives. In the meantime, some of the most prominent AI companies--including OpenAI--continued to do what Silicon Valley is known for: Drop new products. The unexpected firing of Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, was followed by an avalanche of new AI features from competitors, including Anthropic and Stable Diffusion. On Tuesday afternoon, in the midst of turmoil, OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT with voice capabilities for free to all users. OpenAI had pre-released this in late September, but only for paid users.