Thinking Machines Lab

2 releases covered on ThursdAI · thinkingmachines.ai ↗

May 2026

Thinking Machines Lab
New Models

Interaction Models

Thinking Machines Lab drops Interaction Models: real-time multimodal 276B MoE

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Interaction Models, a 276B-parameter MoE (12B active) trained from scratch for native real-time multimodal collaboration. It supports full-duplex audio/video/text with 0.40s turn-taking latency and scores 77.8 on FD-bench v1.5. The demo can react live to events like another person entering the camera frame.

276B MoE parameters12B active parameters

December 2025

Thinking Machines Lab
Funding

Thinking Machines Lab

Thinking Machines Lab launches with a billion-dollar round

Around June, news broke that Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised its first billion-dollar round, pulling in what LDJ described as 'an absolute avalanche of top tier researchers' from OpenAI and other labs. It was one of the year's biggest talent and funding stories.