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AI Daily Brief — 11 May 2026
Thinking Machines (TML) launched Interaction Models — a new class of model focused on Human↔AI bandwidth. Mira Murati and Soumith Chintala drove the announcement, with the first release named TML-Interaction-Small. Horace He also published on the FLOPS-vs-bandwidth shift in modern accelerators.
Top stories
- Thinking Machines launches Interaction Models — TML-Interaction-Small ships first. A new model class designed around increasing Human↔AI bandwidth and raising the ceiling of human flourishing. via @soumithchintala
- Mira Murati: A new class of models — interaction models. CEO framing of the launch. via @miramurati
- Horace He: FLOPS have absolutely exploded — but bandwidth is where the constraint is. Influential analysis of modern accelerator bottlenecks. via @soumithchintala
- Soumith: Thinky”s secret plan — raise human/AI bandwidth, raise the ceiling of human flourishing. Concise positioning statement for Thinking Machines. via @soumithchintala
- Scale Labs congratulates TML on Interaction-Small + tyi release. External validation of the launch. via @soumithchintala
Quiet corners
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Mistral, Meta (Llama), DeepSeek were absent — yielding the day to Thinking Machines.
By the numbers
- 21 stories tracked across 8+ sources
- Most-mentioned model: TML-Interaction-Small
- Most-mentioned company: Thinking Machines
- Notable absences: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Mistral, Meta, DeepSeek
Compiled by AI Feed”s editor from all 21 headlines published on 11 May 2026.