Thinking Machines' Interaction Models Are Clever, But Still LLMs Under the Hood
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab has been quiet since launch, and this is their first real public release. They call it interaction models, and the idea is to design the model around how humans actually collaborate rather than around how long an agent can run alone. Audio, video, text all flowing continuously instead of turn-by-turn. 200ms time-aligned micro-turns, concurrent input and output, a separate background reasoning model for the heavier thinking. ...