OpenAI Unlocks ChatGPT Feature For All – Sam Altman Returns As CEO!

Amid the recent developments surrounding the ouster and subsequent reinstatement of Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI, the company has made a new Chat with Voice feature available free of charge to all ChatGPT users.

This means that even if the user is not a paying ChatGPT Plus subscriber, they can still use OpenAI’s new ChatGPT feature, which enables a full conversation with the chatbot. In a message from X, formerly known as Twitter, the company announced that “ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users. Download the app to your phone and tap the headset icon to start a conversation.”

In the process, a demo shared by OpenAI playfully addresses the company’s current situation, stating, “The team has had a long night and we’re hungry. How many 16-inch pizzas should I order for 778 people?” ChatGPT then provides a detailed answer, noting that it would require 195 16-inch pizzas if 778 employees each eat three slices. It is noteworthy that OpenAI has similar employees, and most of them were the very people who threatened to leave OpenAI if the board did not rehire Sam Altman.

ReturnByte Tech had the opportunity to test the feature with the iOS ChatGPT app. The feature feels responsive; ChatGPT’s responses sound like they’re coming from a real person, and the whole experience feels like a next-generation voice assistant. The AI assistant can now answer you, take breaks, making the whole process more comfortable and natural.

However, Sam Altman is back in his role as CEO of OpenAI after a series of strange developments, which included Microsoft extending an offer for Altman and his team to join its new AI division. OpenAI hired a new interim CEO, Emmett Shear. (Twitch’s former CEO) and the alleged mass firing of employees if OpenAI’s board failed to hire Altman back.