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Thinking Machines Lab releases preview of real-time interaction models

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Thinking Machines Lab announced a research preview of interaction models built from scratch for continuous real-time collaboration. The models process simultaneous audio, video, and text streams through a multi-stream micro-turn architecture. Founder Mira Murati noted that current AI systems force users to adapt to turn-based limitations rather than enabling fluid exchanges. A demonstration video shows the system offering timely audio suggestions during live conversations.

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The current “AI experience” often feels like a conversation that only begins after we stop talking. We have to batch our thoughts. We can’t point at things. We phrase questions like emails. The interface doesn't leave room for us so we adapt to the models.

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The current “AI experience” often feels like a conversation that only begins after we stop talking. We have to batch our thoughts. We can’t point at things. We phrase questions like emails. The interface doesn't leave room for us so we adapt to the models.

Mira Murati@miramurati

Today we're sharing our work on interaction models. A new class of model trained from scratch to handle real-time interaction natively, instead of gluing it onto a turn-based one. https://youtu.be/A12AVongNN4

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8:43 PM · May 11, 2026 · 46.2K Views

Today we're sharing our work on interaction models. A new class of model trained from scratch to handle real-time interaction natively, instead of gluing it onto a turn-based one. https://youtu.be/A12AVongNN4

8:43 PM · May 11, 2026 · 945.9K Views

We started Thinking Machines to advance human-AI collaboration, and this is our first bet on what that looks like. Most labs treat autonomy as the goal and interactivity as scaffolding around a turn-based core. We think the way we work with AI matters as much as how smart it is. Interactivity has to be in the model, and it has to scale with intelligence rather than trail behind it. https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/

Mira Murati@miramurati

The current “AI experience” often feels like a conversation that only begins after we stop talking. We have to batch our thoughts. We can’t point at things. We phrase questions like emails. The interface doesn't leave room for us so we adapt to the models.

8:43 PM · May 11, 2026 · 46.2K Views
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I believe the kids call this "@thinkymachines just brutally framemogged gdm and oai".

basically everyone's definition of "realtime" just got a massive frciking upgrade

swyx 🇸🇬 AIE Singapore!@swyx

lowkey the funniest videos of the batch. thinky has some comedians!! congrats to @thinkymachines on reviving the omnimodel dream that others could not

9:58 PM · May 11, 2026 · 193.4K Views
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Horace He@cHHillee

In modern ML accelerators, FLOPS have absolutely exploded. Often though, the bottleneck is not FLOPS but memory bandwidth. Similarly, model intelligence has exploded, causing the bottleneck to be human<->AI bandwidth. At Thinky, we think that it’s important to solve this. 1/4

8:48 PM · May 11, 2026 · 91.5K Views
12:03 AM · May 12, 2026 · 11.7K Views

lowkey the funniest videos of the batch. thinky has some comedians!!

congrats to @thinkymachines on reviving the omnimodel dream that others could not

Mira Murati@miramurati

Today we're sharing our work on interaction models. A new class of model trained from scratch to handle real-time interaction natively, instead of gluing it onto a turn-based one. https://youtu.be/A12AVongNN4

8:43 PM · May 11, 2026 · 945.9K Views
9:58 PM · May 11, 2026 · 193.4K Views
swyx 🇸🇬 AIE Singapore!@swyx

lowkey the funniest videos of the batch. thinky has some comedians!! congrats to @thinkymachines on reviving the omnimodel dream that others could not

9:58 PM · May 11, 2026 · 193.4K Views
10:02 PM · May 11, 2026 · 13.3K Views

@miramurati That is awesome.

Mira Murati@miramurati

Today we're sharing our work on interaction models. A new class of model trained from scratch to handle real-time interaction natively, instead of gluing it onto a turn-based one. https://youtu.be/A12AVongNN4

8:43 PM · May 11, 2026 · 945.9K Views
8:53 PM · May 11, 2026 · 3.8K Views

The demo of this model is cool.

Interacts with multiple people in multiple languages. On multiple tasks.

Now we know why @miramurati got the big bucks.

Mira Murati@miramurati

Today we're sharing our work on interaction models. A new class of model trained from scratch to handle real-time interaction natively, instead of gluing it onto a turn-based one. https://youtu.be/A12AVongNN4

8:43 PM · May 11, 2026 · 945.9K Views
8:51 PM · May 11, 2026 · 5.8K Views

@miramurati Congratulations @miramurati! This looks amazing 🤩

Mira Murati@miramurati

Today we're sharing our work on interaction models. A new class of model trained from scratch to handle real-time interaction natively, instead of gluing it onto a turn-based one. https://youtu.be/A12AVongNN4

8:43 PM · May 11, 2026 · 945.9K Views
6:07 AM · May 13, 2026 · 183 Views

@miramurati Congratulations! Looks quite cool!

Mira Murati@miramurati

Today we're sharing our work on interaction models. A new class of model trained from scratch to handle real-time interaction natively, instead of gluing it onto a turn-based one. https://youtu.be/A12AVongNN4

8:43 PM · May 11, 2026 · 945.9K Views
8:54 PM · May 11, 2026 · 662 Views

@miramurati Very proud of your hard work Mira. All of our sacrifice has been worth it.

Mira Murati@miramurati

Today we're sharing our work on interaction models. A new class of model trained from scratch to handle real-time interaction natively, instead of gluing it onto a turn-based one. https://youtu.be/A12AVongNN4

8:43 PM · May 11, 2026 · 945.9K Views
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