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John Schulman (@johnschulman2) announced on 2026-05-11 that Thinky is sharing…

Brief

John Schulman and Thinky (Thinking Machines) released work on full‑duplex multimodal models on 2026-05-11, demonstrating real‑time, simultaneous talk/listen/watch interaction without sacrificing intelligence. They argue human‑AI collaboration deserves more focus than autonomy because it's harder to evaluate and propose an 'interaction model' as a persistent outer layer; a blog and demo video show early results.

Why it matters

John Schulman (@johnschulman2) announced on 2026-05-11 that Thinky is sharing work on full‑duplex multimodal models enabling real‑time, simultaneous multimodal interaction (talk/listen/watch/think) without compromising intelligence.

Key details

  • Thinky was founded to differentially advance human‑AI collaboration capabilities, which Schulman says are underemphasized relative to intelligence/autonomy because they are harder to evaluate.
  • They propose every AI will include an 'interaction model' as an outer, user‑facing layer that continually keeps users informed and learns their preferences; Thinking Machines (@thinkymachines) published a blog post and demo video with early results.
Source evidence

Sharing our work on full-duplex multimodal models -- real-time interaction that's natural and intuitive without compromising on intelligence.

We started Thinky in part to differentially advance capabilities for human-AI collaboration, which are underemphasized relative to intelligence/autonomy because they're harder to eval.

In the future, we think every AI system will have something like an interaction model as the outer user-facing layer, continually keeping the user informed and learning what they actually want.

Thinking Machines (@thinkymachines)

People talk, listen, watch, think, and collaborate at the same time, in real time. We've designed an AI that works with people the same way.

We share our approach, early results, and a quick look at our model in action.

thinkingmachines.ai/blog/int…

Video

— https://nitter.net/thinkymachines/status/2053938892152435174#m