Model releaseModerate global significanceConfirmed confidence
OpenAI releases GPT-Realtime-2.1
OpenAI releases gpt-realtime-2.1 for low-latency voice and multimodal interaction.
What happened
Event details
The model updates GPT-Realtime-2 with improved alphanumeric recognition, silence and noise handling, and interruption behavior. It supports configurable reasoning effort, instruction following and tool calling. OpenAI's model documentation lists a 128,000-token context window and a 32,000-token maximum output.
Assessment
Why it matters
A published model record with a documented capability or availability change.
59/100Global significance score. Regional effects are recorded only when the evidence supports a meaningful difference.
Availability
Access notes
Available through OpenAI's Realtime API.