OpenAI Dev Day: Cheaper, Real-Time, Smarter AI
Key Points
- OpenAI cut its API pricing by 50%, and Anthropic followed suit, marking the first time that AI has simultaneously become cheaper and more powerful.
- A new real‑time, voice‑to‑voice API (priced around $18 per hour) with token limits up to 10,000 tokens per minute enables developers to build phone‑based automation apps that can rival human labor costs.
- The company previewed the O1 model, showcasing it live by programming and piloting a drone on stage, illustrating a significant jump in model intelligence and versatility.
- OpenAI is streamlining fine‑tuning directly on its platform, reducing the need for external middleware providers and allowing developers to create specialized, application‑specific models more easily.
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# OpenAI Dev Day: Cheaper, Real-Time, Smarter AI **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5ysxGVEASI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5ysxGVEASI) **Duration:** 00:06:26 ## Summary - OpenAI cut its API pricing by 50%, and Anthropic followed suit, marking the first time that AI has simultaneously become cheaper and more powerful. - A new real‑time, voice‑to‑voice API (priced around $18 per hour) with token limits up to 10,000 tokens per minute enables developers to build phone‑based automation apps that can rival human labor costs. - The company previewed the O1 model, showcasing it live by programming and piloting a drone on stage, illustrating a significant jump in model intelligence and versatility. - OpenAI is streamlining fine‑tuning directly on its platform, reducing the need for external middleware providers and allowing developers to create specialized, application‑specific models more easily. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5ysxGVEASI&t=0s) **OpenAI Dev Day Takeaways** - The speaker highlights OpenAI’s recent announcements—including a 50% cut in API pricing, the launch of a real‑time voice‑to‑voice API with high token limits, and the push for massive developer adoption—as signals that AI is becoming both cheaper and more actionable in 2025. ## Full Transcript
open AI had their Dev day yesterday and
I want to call out four takeaways I
thought were significant and I also want
to talk about where this is hinting that
we're going in 20125 so takeaways first
number one they are making intelligence
cheaper they're dropping API costs by
50% on the basis of having seen these
tokens before and so now they can
process them more cheaply and so they're
passing the costs on to the developers
anthropic immediately followed and also
dropped cost 50% this is not a surprised
face over here
intelligence is getting cheaper in fact
we've never lived in a world where
intelligence has gotten cheaper and
better at the same time and that's what
we're living in right now it's a wild
world second thing I want to call out is
we are launching an we are getting a
hold of as developers a real-time API
with voice to voice so this means it's
possible for anyone to build an app that
for example does customer success phone
calls an app that calls up your phone
carrier and demands cheaper rates an app
that calls up the moving company to
arrange a move whatever it is you want
like it's easy to build an app for that
and openai clearly expects a lot of
action from their 3 million plus
developers on that API they're raising
token limits they're going to make it
possible to put 10,000 tokens a minute
through these
apis and they're expecting you to use
the voice one by the hour like they
priced it out so it's a reasonable price
per hour 18 bucks an hour for someone to
talk on the phone it competes with labor
costs and that's exactly where they're
positioning
it okay and that's not the only thing
that they that they did they also
previewed intelligence so I said
intelligence was getting better they
previewed the 01 model by the way I
don't mean 01 preview the model that's
on all all of our apps I mean they
previewed the actual 01 model I know
words are hard so the actual 01 model
they used it to program a drone live on
stage the Drone flew around it shot
video Etc and they did it all like from
setting up the server to Flying the
Drone right there by working with 01 and
that sort of gets me to like so those
are the big takeaways right so we have
the realtime API we have the o1 we have
apis getting cheaper um and they're also
making it easier to fine-tune these
models so like middleware providers that
like lived off of fine-tuning apis may
be somewhat in trouble because they're
going to give you the tools to fine-tune
apis and do smaller application specific
models right off of the open AI sort of
API level so basically you don't have to
go to someone else to tune your model
for you necessarily depending on your
application you can go straight to open
AI for take
but here's the thing like if at the
larger scale the model's getting smarter
with 01 the model's getting cheaper
cheaper tokens affordable voice calling
rates for an hour it's getting more
capable with the fine-tuning with the
voice too realtime
API higher token limits it's pointing
the direction to agent-based workflows
that's the takeaway for me like we are
seeing the shape of what agent-based
workflows are going to look like and
that's actually what Sam also hinted
when he talked about the future he said
said he thinks agent-based workflows are
coming next year and that it will be as
big a moment for the world as the launch
of the original chat GPT because think
about it you give a task to the agent
you go to bed the agent is done with it
by morning and you have I don't know a
working piece of software some large
project that you want done and it's just
completely finished so it's really going
to change our expectations for
productivity I'm sure it's going to
change their pricing model I don't
expect that to come cheap and it's going
to change how we think about how humans
interact with this kind of intelligence
and the kinds of problems we solve
there's going to be even more fear
uncertainty and doubt in the labor
market around how these agents can work
as employees versus
now but I don't view it as an apocalypse
for jobs I actually think that these
agents will be additive I think that
they're going to help humans solve
problems for
humans and I think net net we're going
to be able to work in partnership with
intelligence like this to solve
meaningful problems I think that's the
most likely outcome it's not the only
possibility like there's other
possibilities out there that are that
are darker for sure but looking at how
ragged edged the adoption is already for
chat GPT looking at how two-thirds of
American workers still don't use chat
GPT daily or
weekly there's there's so much left room
to run room to run just on adoption
right and you add agents to the workflow
and and there will be that same adoption
curve layered on top of agent based
workflows I see the pictures of the
future through this Dev day but I also
think it is going to arrive in fits and
starts it's going to arrive in pieces
for individual people and there will be
lots of room to adapt if you're hungry
to adapt um and as part of why I'm doing
my Maven courses I think there is
opportunity to adapt I don't view this
as a job's Apocalypse at all one last
takeaway I think this timing is really
interesting with the raise that they're
doing so Sam is doing a$6 a half billion
dollar raise terms leaked out today that
are sweeter than the original terms and
I think that's influenced by the
departure of technical Talent like mea
Mora um and they need to be able to
convince investors that they can do this
and that the investors have some
protection and not surprising the terms
that leaked offer more protection to
investors they offer an interest rate to
investors they offer a clawback option
Etc
um and so basically investors are going
to get some guarantees if Sam has trou
converting this to a for-profit entity
and getting the technical Talent on
board to really make a run at this AGI
goal that they have right artificial
general
intelligence we will see my suspicion is
that if he can successfully raise six
and a half billion he will be able to
scare up the technical Talent he needs
to because he'll have the salaries to
command
but the best people in the world are
also very very scarce in this field and
they many of them are already Founders
and so it may look like a bunch of Aqua
hires um we'll have to see I think
that's one of the really interesting
questions coming out of this is that the
Ambitions of the company are clear it's
unclear if the technical Talent they
have on board with mea's departure and a
few other departures is enough to get
them there or if they have a talent
problem that they're going to need to
close uh and that's something that I'm
going to be keeping my eye on we'll see
maybe agent based work closer coming
next year