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Thinking Machines debuts Inkling, a giant open model it admits is not the best

“We believe in keeping the weirdness alive.” That line comes from a manifesto Mira Murati’s lab published last week. It is also the thinking behind the lab’s first model. Thinking Machines Lab, founded by the former OpenAI chief technology officer, has released Inkling. It is open-weight, so any developer or company can download the model […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

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Thinking Machines open sources first multimodal language model, Inkling, focused on low cost and 'resistance to censorship'

Enterprises looking to move more of their agentic AI workloads to open weights models they can customize, control and run on-premises or in virtual private clouds have a strong new contender to consid [...]

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Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models'

Is AI leaving the era of "turn-based" chat?Right now, all of us who use AI models regularly for work or in our personal lives know that the basic interaction mode across text, imagery, audio [...]

Match Score: 151.74

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Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking emerges as leading open source AI, outperforming GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5 on key benchmarks

Even as concern and skepticism grows over U.S. AI startup OpenAI's buildout strategy and high spending commitments, Chinese open source AI providers are escalating their competition and one has e [...]

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

Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released Inkling, a multimodal open-weights model with 975 billion parameters. It leads U.S. open-weights models on the Artificial [...]

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Thinking Machines bets on efficiency over size with its second model, Inkling Small

Thinking Machines, the AI lab from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released Inkling Small. The open-weights reasoning model is less than a third the size of Inkling but beats it on several coding a [...]

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Baidu just dropped an open-source multimodal AI that it claims beats GPT-5 and Gemini

Baidu Inc., China's largest search engine company, released a new artificial intelligence model on Monday that its developers claim outperforms competitors from Google and OpenAI on several visio [...]

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Thinking Machines' first official product is here: meet Tinker, an API for distributed LLM fine-tuning

Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded earlier this year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has launched its first product: Tinker, a Python-based API designed to make large language model (LLM) fin [...]

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Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size

Poolside, the San Francisco AI lab that has spent most of its three-year existence quietly selling coding models to governments and defense agencies, released its most capable model to date on Tuesday [...]

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What to be thankful for in AI in 2025

Hello, dear readers. Happy belated Thanksgiving and Black Friday!This year has felt like living inside a permanent DevDay. Every week, some lab drops a new model, a new agent framework, or a new “th [...]

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