The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis Towards AI That Can Actually Interact
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May 12, 2026 A new class of AI that listens, watches, interrupts, and works in the background for real‑time collaboration. A look at interaction model design with 200ms microturns and parallel streams. Demos of live translation, posture-aware interjection, multitasking, and background search. Headlines on DeployCo, private-market AI stock turmoil, regulatory backtracking, and a China tech delegation.
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Interaction Models Replace Turn Based Chat
- Thinking Machines introduced interaction models that run continuous 200ms microturns to enable simultaneous perception and response.
- The design pairs a real-time interaction model with a background model for longer reasoning, search, and tool use.
TML Founded By Ex‑OpenAI Leaders And Persisted
- Thinking Machines was founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Mirati and raised aggressively before releasing Tinker and later interaction work.
- The team experienced departures but still shipped Thinky, signaling focused research intent.
Parallel Streams Let Models Stay Present
- Interaction models maintain parallel input and output streams so the model perceives and responds simultaneously.
- That continuous two-way exchange lets the model interrupt, update, and weave background work into the conversation naturally.