Thinking Machines and interaction models

Thinking Machines just released Interaction Models . This is their first real AI model release 1 after a year of work and two billion dollars of capital. What is an “interaction model”? First, it’s not a frontier model . Thinking Machines is not yet competing with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Instead, they’re working on the problem of better real-time interaction with models. Some parts of what they’re doing are not new at all, other parts are slightly-questionable benchmark gaming, and still other parts r