Here’s what Mira Murati’s AI company is up to - The Verge

So Mira Murati, former OpenAI CTO, has emerged from the ChatGPT mothership to launch Thinking Machines — because naming things is hard when you're busy 'reimagining human-AI interaction.' Her grand plan: 'interaction models' that take in audio, video, and text simultaneously. Because plainly, none of the billion-dollar chatbots already doing this one-at-a-time were enough. What could possibly go wrong?

The Verge article breathlessly announces this as if it's the next step in evolution, but let's consider: the model is always on, always ingesting your voice, your face, your keystrokes. That's not collaboration — that's surveillance with a smile. And the irony? Murati knows exactly how these systems work; she helped build the guardrails at OpenAI. Yet here she is, rolling out the red carpet for the always-listening AI that no one asked for.

This is the pattern now: ex-AI executives launch startups that promise 'new paradigms' while conveniently ignoring the problems of their previous creations. Thinking Machines will likely raise a billion, produce a demo, and eventually be absorbed back into the very monoliths they fled. Rinse, repeat. At least the name is honest: the machines are thinking — about how to make you pay for the privilege of being watched.