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

Mira Murati's post-OpenAI bet: interaction models that process audio, video, and text in real time—no waiting.

Reporting by The Verge AI 1 min brief
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Why it matters

Murati's Thinking Machines is positioning a new model class focused on continuous multimodal perception and real-time reasoning, signaling a shift away from turn-based LLM interaction patterns. This represents a meaningful capability differentiation that could reshape how AI assistants are built.

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5 to know

  1. Mira Murati founded Thinking Machines after departing OpenAI CTO role

  2. Company announced 'interaction models' capability

  3. Models process audio, video, and text continuously in real time

  4. Design enables simultaneous perception and response (not turn-based)

  5. Positioned as natural human-AI collaboration model

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Publisher excerpt: 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…
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