Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
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Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, an open-weight AI model with 975 billion total parameters that developers can download and modify, departing from the closed models sold by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The model uses about 41 billion parameters per task and requires a third as many tokens as Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Ultra to achieve equivalent coding performance, according to the company's benchmarks. The startup is positioning Inkling as a customizable foundation for enterprises to fine-tune through its Tinker platform rather than a finished product, betting that organization-specific AI will outperform general-purpose models.
Why it matters
It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.
