Simon Willison — 2026-06-12#

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Simon updated his OpenAI WebRTC audio playground to support the newly released GPT-Realtime-2 model and added support for custom document context. This highlights a great use case for building small, sharp tools: bypassing official app delays to immediately experiment with bleeding-edge AI capabilities on your own terms.

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OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context · Source Simon revisited and upgraded a browser-based tool he originally built in December 2024 for interacting with OpenAI’s realtime audio API. Users can now select GPT-Realtime-2—a model promoted as having “GPT-5-class reasoning”—because it still hasn’t rolled out to the official ChatGPT iPhone app. Most practically, he added a feature to paste large chunks of document context directly into the tool, enabling interactive audio conversations grounded in specific reference material.

Quoting Andrew Singleton · Source Simon shared a cynical and highly entertaining excerpt from Andrew Singleton’s “AI Economics for Dummies”. The quote satirizes the current AI investment bubble through an absurd parable about a propane company and a crematorium engaging in circular investments to artificially inflate revenue and equity. It serves as a sharp, humorous critique of how opaque financial narratives in the AI space are frequently spun to credulous journalists.

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Simon continues his pragmatic trend of building custom, browser-based API playgrounds to test multi-modal features like audio and document context long before they are finalized in mainstream consumer apps.