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Here’s what Mira Murati’s AI company is up to - The Verge

Mira Murati's new startup just shipped real-time interaction models. Here's what that means for the agent race.

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Thinking Machines, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is advancing real-time AI conversation capabilities with new interaction models designed for humanlike responsiveness—a key technical threshold for enterprise AI agents and deployment at scale.

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  1. Mira Murati (former OpenAI CTO) leading Thinking Machines

  2. New 'interaction models' with near real-time AI voice and video conversation capability

  3. Focus on humanlike interaction and responsiveness

  4. Published May 11, 2026

  5. Coverage across The Verge, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE

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Publisher excerpt: Here’s what Mira Murati’s AI company is up to The Verge AI's Collaboration Bottleneck Solved StartupHub.ai Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models' VentureBeat Real time interaction model demos miss enterprise value…
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