#Interaction Models
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What Mira Murati Said and Shipped at Thinking Machines in 2026
In June 2026, Mira Murati gave her first major interview since leaving OpenAI, outlining a new class of real-time AI called interaction models. A month later, Thinking Machines Lab shipped Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weight model aimed at enterprise customization. Here is the full account of what she said and what it signals.
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines: $2B Raised, $50B Stalled, Shipping
Thinking Machines Lab raised $2 billion at a $12 billion seed valuation in July 2025, then sought $50 billion from investors four months later before backers passed. Here is the full financial arc: valuation milestones, Nvidia and Google infrastructure deals, and two shipped products through June 2026.
AI's Next Leap: Interaction Models
Thinking Machines Lab introduces 'interaction models' for AI, enabling real-time, multimodal collaboration that mirrors human conversation.
Thinking Machines Lab Wants to Replace OpenAI Realtime With a Model That Listens While It Speaks
Mira Murati's lab published its first technical paper, arguing that real-time interactivity should be a native model capability rather than scaffolding bolted around turn-based language models, and it ships benchmarks where GPT Realtime-2 scores near zero.
