# Thinking Machines Lab — Announcing Interactivity Research Grants

- Company: Thinking Machines Lab (thinkingmachines.ai)
- Announced: 2026-05-19
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- Group: announcements
- Source: https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/interactivity-research-grants
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18558-announcing-interactivity-research-grants
- Subject: Thinking Machines / Inkling

We recently published a research preview of interaction models , an approach to AI designed for human collaboration. Collaboration requires interactivity — the capacity of a model to communicate in real time in different modalities in a way that is intuitive for people. Most AI research in recent years has focused on intelligence and autonomy, with interactivity relegated to secondary importance. We aim to change that — with your help. We are awarding multiple grants of $100,000 (with an additional $25,000 in Tinker credits) for proposals on research that advances interactivity. We encourage you to apply by June 19, 2026 to [email protected] . Research direction We are looking for research that lays the foundation for interactivity to scale along with intelligence. There are many potential avenues of interactivity research to pursue, here are some that we are excited about: Evaluations for real-time multimodal interaction. How do we benchmark the real-time interaction ability of AI systems in real world use cases? The open research community is uniquely positioned to contribute independent, fair evaluations that push this work forward. …

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