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When OpenAI held its Spring Launch event in May, one of the biggest standouts was its demo of the new Voice Mode on ChatGPT, supercharged with GPT-4o’s new video and audio capabilities. The highly anticipated new Voice Mode is finally here (kind of). 

Also: The best AI chatbots of 2024: ChatGPT, Copilot, and worthy alternatives

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced via an X post that the startup was rolling out Voice Mode in alpha to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users, offering them a smarter voice assistant that can be interrupted and respond to their emotions. 

KAIST startup Panmnesia (the name means “the power to remember absolutely everything one thinks, feels, encounters, and experiences”) claims to have developed a new approach to boosting GPU memory.

The company’s breakthrough allows for the addition of terabyte-scale memory using cost-effective storage media such as NAND-based SSDs while maintaining reasonable performance levels.

Looking back at my entrepreneurial journey, I can see how much of my success was about good timing—catching the “wave” of technological changes—the internet boom, web hosting, SaaS—and more. In my book Start. Scale. Exit Repeat. I dedicated an entire chapter to catching the wave of tech changes at the right time to accelerate a startup.

Each has created a paradigm shift in the market, transforming individuals and industries.

We can see how some tech crosses the Tech Chasm—a concept coined by Geoffrey Moore—like robot vacuums or Bluetooth devices. Or how many advancements have NOT crossed the Chasm—like Apple’s Newton tablet or Google Glass. And some, the jury is still out…