PulseAugur
EN
LIVE 15:00:09

Ex-OpenAI CTO's Thinking Machines releases 975B parameter model Inkling

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] ·

Thinking Machines Lab, co-founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has launched Inkling, a new open-weights multimodal model with 975 billion parameters. While Inkling surpasses other open-weights models from the US on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, it still lags behind leading Chinese open models in certain benchmarks. The model is priced at $1.87 per million input tokens and is positioned as a foundational model for fine-tuning. AI

IMPACT Sets a new benchmark for US open-weights models, potentially influencing future model development and fine-tuning strategies.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

Read on The Decoder →

AI-generated summary · Google Gemini · from 1 sources. How we write summaries →

Ex-OpenAI CTO's Thinking Machines releases 975B parameter model Inkling

How we ranked this

Signal score
0 / 100
Composite score across the factors below. Higher = stronger signal that this story matters right now.
Newsworthiness bucket
Significant
Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]
Source corroboration
Single-source cluster
Only one publisher covered this so far. Single-source stories can still rank when the publisher is high-authority, but they lack cross-source corroboration.
Topics
model release
Editorial topic classification. Feeds into how the story surfaces on /topic/<slug> hub pages and into the per-entity coverage mix.
AI-industry relevance
High
Clearly on-topic for AI-industry coverage.
Story freshness
45 days old
Aged out of breaking-news scoring windows; ranking reflects the durable signal from the full source set.

Full methodology in our editorial standards.

COVERAGE [1]

  1. The Decoder TIER_1 English(EN) · Matthias Bastian ·

    Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati's Thinking Machines drops Inkling, a 975B parameter model that leads US labs but trails China

    <p><img alt="" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" height="801" src="https://the-decoder.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/thinking_machines_inkling_logo.png" style="height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;" width="1256" /></p> <p> Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former Open…

RELATED ENTITIES

RELATED TOPICS