It’s here. OpenAI’s ChatGPT has deployed video and audio capabilities at mass scale – a milestone the company’s researchers have been grinding away on for months. Voice and vision interactivity have already been baked into ChatGPT’s toolset for paid users for some time, but the disruptive force of the new update—coined GPT-4o—lies in the democratization of video and audio, by making these capabilities availability to all 100 million+ users globally. In doing so, OpenAI has arguably created the closest thing to an all-round digital personal assistant currently on the marketplace. This is by no means the polished article, as awkward early demos have proven, but the sheer scale at which GPT-4 class intelligence is now available to free users should…