Is GPT-Live the iPhone multitouch moment?

New interfaces show up before the products that need them. The mouse came before the Mac. The click wheel came before the iPod. Multitouch came before the iPhone.

OpenAI shipped GPT-Live last week, a voice model that listens and talks at the same time instead of taking turns. Every voice assistant before this has felt like a walkie-talkie: you talk, then you wait, then it talks back. This one doesn’t. It’s more natural, like how humans actually speak. Typing on a screen never needed that fix. A device with no screen does, and OpenAI bought Jony Ive’s hardware studio, io, last year without saying much beyond “a device”.

Full-duplex voice feels like the next big interface unlock. Whatever io ships will be the first product built for it.