Mira Murati's Tinker offers real-time AI, but can it beat OpenAI?
mira murati's thinking machines lab previewed 'interaction models' that process audio and video in 200ms intervals to handle human interruptions in real time. this approach challenges the turn-based chat interfaces dominant at openai and anthropic, suggesting a future where ai mirrors human conversation dynamics.
mira murati emerged from a year-and-a-half of silence to preview 'interaction models,' a new class of ai interface developed by her startup, thinking machines lab. unlike the turn-based chat paradigm established by chatgpt, these models process continuous audio, text, and video in 200ms intervals to capture the texture of human conversation, including interruptions and pauses. murati described this as a first step toward a more natural human-computer interaction, declining to set a specific release date for the technology. beyond the product reveal, murati reflected on the 2023 openai governance crisis, arguing that the industry relies too heavily on individual virtue rather than structural checks and governance to prevent catastrophic errors.