Thinking Machines
Thinking Machines is an AI company that recently released Inkling, an open-weight multimodal foundation model with 975 billion parameters, a 1 million token context window, and support for text, images, and audio inputs. The company has also developed a low-latency conversational system and incorporated Chinese models DeepSeek-V3 and Kimi K2.5 into its foundation model training. Co-founder Lilian Weng departed the company citing health reasons and joined OpenAI as a researcher.
Updated 3 August 2026
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Latest developments
Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier
Interconnects · 23 hours ago ·
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Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI
TechCrunch AI · 4 days ago ·
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The U.S. wants to contain China’s AI. Silicon Valley keeps using it
Rest of World · 1 week ago ·
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The Sequence Radar #897: Last Week in AI: China, Compression and the Open-Model Race
TheSequence · 2 weeks ago ·
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AI #177 Part 1: Tip of the Iceberg
Zvi (Don't Worry About the Vase) · 2 weeks ago ·
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I've got an Inkling
Ben's Bites · 2 weeks ago ·
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Thinking Machines released Inkling, an open-weight customizable multimodal model
The Neuron · 2 weeks ago ·
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Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines
Hugging Face Blog · 2 weeks ago ·
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August 2026
July 2026
Multiple AI companies release competitive open-weight models as industry trend shifts toward openness Open source release
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model achieving frontier-class performance Open source release
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model competing with frontier American systems Model release
Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weights multimodal mixture-of-experts model Open source release
Thinking Machines releases Inkling, an open-source multimodal language model with 975 billion parameters Open source release
- Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI
- The U.S. wants to contain China’s AI. Silicon Valley keeps using it
- The Sequence Radar #897: Last Week in AI: China, Compression and the Open-Model Race
- AI #177 Part 1: Tip of the Iceberg
- I've got an Inkling
- Thinking Machines released Inkling, an open-weight customizable multimodal model
- Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines
May 2026
- LWiAI Podcast #245 - TML-Interaction, Claude For Legal, Sam Altman on Stand
- Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 455
January 2026
Relationships
Products & technology
- Develops Inkling · 5 sources
- Integrated with DeepSeek-V3 · 1 source
Competition
- Anthropic competes with this company · 1 source
People
- Lilian Weng founded by this company · 1 source