Here’s what Mira Murati’s AI company is up to

Thinking Machines is demonstrating AI ‘interaction models’ that respond to users in real time.

by Jay Peters

May 11, 2026, 10:19 PM UTC

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Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it’s working on something called “interaction models.” The idea behind interaction models, according to Thinking Machines, is that they will let people “collaborate with AI the way we naturally collaborate with each other — they continuously take in audio, video, and text, and think, respond, and act in real time.”

As explained by Thinking Machines:

Today’s models experience reality in a single thread. Until the user finishes typing or speaking, the model waits with no perception of what the user is doing or...

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