Autonomy and agency

OpenAI releases GPT-realtime and general-availability Realtime API

OpenAI released GPT-realtime with speech-to-speech reasoning, image input, asynchronous function calls, remote MCP support and SIP connectivity as the Realtime API reached general availability.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM42confidence 92/100

Why it moved the index

Native voice interaction, tool calls, remote MCP and telephony connectivity materially expanded a deployed model's ability to act through real-time external systems.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 42 · confidence 92

    New exact August 2025 model and API release corroborated by the required OpenAI Developers Realtime note; no durable collision.

    12 Aug 2026
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  1. DoomBench assesses “OpenAI releases GPT-realtime and general-availability Realtime API” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 42 and confidence 92 out of 100 in the autonomy and agency category.

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