The AI Daily Brief · Friday, July 24, 2026
Anthropic has made its voice mode available for Opus and Sonnet models, allowing users to interact with more powerful AI without sacrificing voice interface quality. OpenAI has also expanded its voice capabilities to its desktop app, utilizing its new real-time voice model, GPT Live.
“Anthropic has finally made their voice mode available for their Opus and Sonnet models rather than just Haiku, meaning users won't need to choose between the comfy voice interface and having access to powerful models.”
“OpenAI's feature releases voice in the desktop app.”
“The feature is driven by OpenAI's new real-time voice model, GPT Live, so it can carry out background tasks while keeping a natural sounding conversation.”