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OpenAI’s 12 days of ‘ship-mas’: all the new announcements

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‘Hey Santa, are you real or just a chatbot?’

OpenAI is rolling out Santa in Voice Mode for ChatGPT. You can activate it by tapping a snowflake icon that appears to the right of the text box, but it will only be available until the end of the year.

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