Digital Trends Thinking Machines Lab, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced a full‑duplex interaction model that can listen and speak simultaneously. The TML‑Interaction‑Small model generates responses in about 0.40 seconds, a speed the company says approaches natural human conversation. The technology is currently in a research preview phase, with limited access slated for the coming months and a wider release planned later this year. If the model delivers on its promise, AI voice assistants could become noticeably more fluid and less prone to awkward pauses.
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