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Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, on Monday announced something called interaction models<\/a>, which, at its essence, sounds like AI that can interrupt you.<\/p>\n Right now, every AI model you\u2019ve 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\u2019s more like a phone call than a text chain.<\/p>\n The technical term for this is \u201cfull duplex,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n Still, this is a research preview, not a product. The company isn\u2019t releasing it to the public yet. A \u201climited research preview\u201d is coming in the next few months, it says, with a wider release set for later this year.<\/p>\n So what to make of it? We\u2019re not sure. The benchmarks<\/a> are impressive and the underlying idea \u2014 that interactivity should be native to a model, not bolted on \u2014 is definitely interesting. Whether the real-world experience lives up to the technical claims is something we won\u2019t know until people can actually use it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n