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Thinking Machines' "Interaction Models": Building Real-Time Conversation Into the Model, Not Pasting It on Top

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Thinking Machines' "Interaction Models": Building Real-Time Conversation Into the Model, Not Pasting It on Top

Most AI voice conversation systems layer speech-to-text and text-to-speech on top of a language model. Thinking Machines chose a different path: train interactivity directly into the model.

The claim: when interactivity is native, scaling the model makes it both smarter and a better collaborator simultaneously — one goal, not two separate optimization targets.

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