Mira Murati's start-up presents its first AI model and aims to free voice AI from the question-and-answer model. The model processes audio, video and text in 200-millisecond chunks in parallel and aims to beat OpenAI's GPT Realtime 2 and Google's Gemini Live in terms of interaction quality.

By making interactivity native to the model, Thinking Machines believes that scaling a model will now make it both smarter and a more effective collaborator.

Right now, every AI model you've 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…