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This edition of The Batch covers five notable AI developments: Thinking Machines' research preview of an 'interaction model' with a 200ms micro-turn multimodal architecture; Baidu's ERNIE 5.1, a compressed derivative of ERNIE 5.0 using only 6% of typical pre-training compute; Google DeepMind's Co-Mathematician collaborative workbench reaching 48% on FrontierMath Tier 4; a 7B RL Conductor model that orchestrates multi-agent workflows via reinforcement learning; and Google's Magic Pointer cursor system powered by Gemini. Secondary items include GitHub Copilot pricing restructuring ahead of usage-based billing.