{"id":35582,"date":"2026-05-12T05:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/35582\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T05:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:26:16","slug":"thinking-machines-wants-to-build-an-ai-that-actually-listens-while-it-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/35582\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, on Monday announced something called <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thinkingmachines.ai\/blog\/interaction-models\/\" target=\"_blank\">interaction models<\/a>, which, at its essence, sounds like AI that can interrupt you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now, every AI model you\u2019ve ever used works the same way. You talk, it listens. It responds, you listen. Thinking Machines is trying to change that by building a model that processes your input and generates a response at the same time, so it\u2019s more like a phone call than a text chain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The technical term for this is \u201cfull duplex,\u201d and the company claims its model, TML-Interaction-Small, responds in 0.40 seconds, which is roughly the speed of natural human conversation and significantly faster than comparable models from OpenAI and Google.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, this is a research preview, not a product. The company isn\u2019t releasing it to the public yet. A \u201climited research preview\u201d is coming in the next few months, it says, with a wider release set for later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what to make of it? We\u2019re not sure. The <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thinkingmachines.ai\/blog\/interaction-models\/#benchmarks\" target=\"_blank\">benchmarks<\/a> are impressive and the underlying idea \u2014 that interactivity should be native to a model, not bolted on \u2014 is definitely interesting. Whether the real-world experience lives up to the technical claims is something we won\u2019t know until people can actually use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, on Monday announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,22501,7492,8554],"class_list":["post-35582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-interaction-models","tag-mira-murati","tag-thinking-machines-lab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}