Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Muratti, announced some on Monday. interaction modelWhich in essence sounds like AI that can interrupt you.
Right now, every AI model you’ve used works the same way. You talk, it listens. It responds, you listen. Thinking Machines is trying to change this by creating 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 that its model, tml-interaction-small, responds in 0.40 seconds, which is approximately the speed of natural human conversation and significantly faster than comparable models from OpenAI and Google.
Still, this is a research preview, not a product. The company is not releasing it to the public yet. It says a “limited research preview” is coming in the next few months, with a wider release set for later this year.
So what should this mean? we are not sure. Standard are impressive and the underlying idea – that interactivity should be core to a model, not imposed upon it – is certainly interesting. We won’t know whether the real-world experience lives up to the technical claims until people actually use it.
