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Thinking Machines releases open-weight Inkling model to empower Asian tech firms

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Thinking Machines, led by Mira Murati, has released its 975-billion parameter Inkling model as open-weight. This move provides Asian technology firms with a powerful alternative to US cloud-based AI services. The multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model is particularly beneficial for developers in Japan and China who prioritize data sovereignty and wish to develop bespoke AI solutions internally. AI

IMPACT Empowers Asian tech firms with data sovereignty and custom AI development, challenging US cloud AI monopolies.

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

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Thinking Machines releases open-weight Inkling model to empower Asian tech firms

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    By making its 975B-parameter Inkling model fully open-weight, Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines is handing Asian tech firms a major weapon against US cloud monopo

    By making its 975B-parameter Inkling model fully open-weight, Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines is handing Asian tech firms a major weapon against US cloud monopolies. For Japanese and Chinese developers wary of black-box APIs, this multimodal MoE model offers a rare chance to secu…

    LINKS asiaai.fyi/issue-40

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