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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab launches Inkling with open weights and honest positioning

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Thinking Machines Lab, co-founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, has launched its first model, Inkling. This open-weights system boasts 975 billion parameters and a million-token context window, capable of processing text, images, and audio. Uniquely, the company acknowledges Inkling is not the strongest model available, positioning its strategy around users owning and customizing the model rather than renting access. AI

IMPACT Inkling's open-weights approach and honest positioning may signal a shift towards user-owned models, potentially influencing future AI development and adoption strategies.

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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab launches Inkling with open weights and honest positioning

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  1. Towards AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yashraj Behera ·

    Inkling Is Mira Murati’s First Model. Here’s How to Actually Use It

    <p><em>Thinking Machines Lab, founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer and sitting on two billion dollars of funding, shipped its first model on July 15. Inkling is a 975-billion-parameter open-weights system with a million-token context window, and in its own announce…

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