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Thinking Machines Lab Reveals TML-Interaction-Small: Real-Time Multimodal Interaction Model

Thinking Machines Lab (founded by Mira Murati) has announced TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B-parameter mixture-of-experts multimodal model that processes audio, video, and text concurrently using 200ms 'micro-turns' rather than waiting for conversational turns to complete. The architecture uses encoder-free early fusion, pairing a fast foreground interaction model with an asynchronous background reasoning model that shares context. On interactivity benchmarks (FD-bench V1/V1.5), it outperforms GPT-Realtime-2 and Gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview, though it trails GPT-Realtime-2 on intelligence benchmarks. A closed research preview is expected in coming months with wider release later in 2026.