Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab is an AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati that develops open-weights foundation models. The company released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model trained on 45 trillion tokens with an Apache 2.0 license, along with a smaller 276-billion-parameter variant called Inkling-Small, positioning these as customizable alternatives to closed commercial models from established AI giants.
Updated 3 August 2026
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Latest developments
Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling-Small: A 276B Total, 12B Active Open Weights Multimodal MoE Model
MarkTechPost · 21 hours ago ·
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Inkling: Our open-weights model
Simon Willison · 2 weeks ago ·
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Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 464
Deep Learning Weekly · 2 weeks ago ·
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Mira Murati's AI Startup Releases First Model in Bid to Loosen AI Giants' Grip
TLDR · 2 weeks ago ·
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[AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)
Latent Space · 2 weeks ago ·
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Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling: A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort
MarkTechPost · 2 weeks ago ·
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Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model
Wired AI · 2 weeks ago ·
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Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
TechCrunch AI · 2 weeks ago ·
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Q3 2026
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model achieving frontier-class performance Open source release
Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weights multimodal model under Apache 2.0 license Open source release
Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weights multimodal mixture-of-experts model Open source release
Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weight AI model Open source release
Thinking Machines releases Inkling, an open-source multimodal language model with 975 billion parameters Open source release
- Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling-Small: A 276B Total, 12B Active Open Weights Multimodal MoE Model
- Inkling: Our open-weights model
- Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 464
- Mira Murati's AI Startup Releases First Model in Bid to Loosen AI Giants' Grip
- [AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)
- Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling: A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort
- Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model
- Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
- Together AI brings Thinking Machines Lab’s new model Inkling on day 0
Relationships
Products & technology
- Develops Inkling · 8 sources
- Develops Inkling-Small · 3 sources
People
- Founded by Mira Murati · 1 source
- Mira Murati founded by this company · 1 source