OpenAI teases Astra with MIT's 1979 voice-and-gesture interface

The clip points toward a multimodal launch two days after OpenAI said its delayed Astra model would arrive soon.

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OpenAI is positioning Astra around contextual interaction, pairing voice, vision and action while imposing new controls on its most capable model yet.

OpenAI teases Astra with MIT's 1979 voice-and-gesture interface

OpenAI teased its coming Astra model on September 3rd with archival footage of "Put That There," an MIT research system that combined spoken commands and pointing gestures in 1979.

https://x.com/openai/status/2095527557924082061?s=46

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