Thinking Machines, a startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released its first open-weight AI model named Inkling. This model, a mixture-of-experts system with 975 billion parameters, is designed to be adaptable by external developers and organizations, contrasting with the closed, general-purpose models from major labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Inkling aims to provide well-rounded performance and allows users to adjust "thinking effort," and on one benchmark, it reportedly used a third of the tokens of NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra for similar coding performance. The company positions Inkling as a starting point for enterprises to fine-tune using their Tinker platform, emphasizing the value of customized AI over one-size-fits-all solutions. AI
IMPACT Challenges closed-model dominance and may accelerate enterprise adoption of customizable AI solutions.
RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card.
- Anthropic
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
- Inkling
- Mira Murati
- Nemotron 3 Ultra
- NVIDIA
- OpenAI
- Thinking machines
- Tinker
- Clem Delangue
- Hugging Face
- Microsoft
- Satya Nadella
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