Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks
Key takeaways
- Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded last year by former Open AI CTO Mira Murati, on Monday announced something called interaction models, which, at its essence, sounds like AI that can interrupt you.
- Right now, every AI model you ve ever used works the same way.
- A limited research preview is coming in the next few months, it says, with a wider release set for later this year.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded last year by former Open AI CTO Mira Murati, on Monday announced something called interaction models, which, at its essence, sounds like AI that can interrupt you.
Right now, every AI model you ve 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 s more like a phone call than a text chain.
The technical term for this is full duplex, 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.