OpenAI has launched two new Realtime models, GPT-Realtime-2.1 and GPT-Realtime-2.1-mini, designed for low-latency voice and multimodal applications via their API. The GPT-Realtime-2.1-mini is a smaller, more cost-effective reasoning model for real-time voice interactions, maintaining previous pricing while adding enhanced reasoning and tool-use capabilities. OpenAI also announced a significant reduction in p95 latency by at least 25% across its Realtime voice models, attributed to improved caching mechanisms. AI
IMPACT Enhances real-time voice agent capabilities with improved latency and reasoning, potentially accelerating adoption in customer support and interactive applications.
RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=2 ai=1.0]
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