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Voice AI Will Never Be the Same After This
OpenAI just crushed the competition
Midas AI
September 02, 2025
In AI, clarity is your edge and this is where you get it.
Good morning from The Midas Report, now let’s get you up to speed.
So it looks like OpenAI’s new voice model just ran over half the industry
If you’re building in voice AI right now, you felt this one land.
OpenAI just dropped gpt realtime, a single speech to speech model that does it all live, straight from voice input to intelligent response, no detours needed.
It's smooth, it's real time, and it just sunsetted the old speech to text to brain to voice pipeline most startups were built on. And if you’ve spent the last two years stringing models together just to answer a customer call?
That thud you hear is your cost advantage collapsing.
OpenAI didn’t just release a shiny new toy. They made it stupidly easy to build high quality voice agents. The Realtime API, now out of beta, includes SIP telephony support (i.e. phone calls), remote server integration, even image input.
Toss in their tight Twilio integration and you’re two clicks away from spinning up your own AI call center.
T Mobile’s already there.
They’ve been quietly testing gpt realtime for six months. One recent demo showed the model guiding a customer through an upgrade process, handling unexpected questions, catching emotional cues, even decoding messy audio.
This isn’t just call center cosplay. It’s a retooling of the playbook.
For startups that made their name wrapping multiple models together, transcription, LLMs, custom voices, this is an existential moment.
OpenAI collapsed the stack. What took you months, a dev team, and some duct tape, a solo engineer can now build over the weekend.
Some niche players still offer more control and levers for fine tuning. But in a world where anyone can build a decent AI agent with off the shelf tools, differentiation gets harder... and pricing pressure is inbound.
If you're running CX or support, this is your pilot moment. The infrastructure just got easier and more powerful. Time to test the new stack before your competitors do.
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That’s your AI edge on September 2nd 2025.
See you tomorrow!
Midas AI