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Thinking Machines Lab
AI Market Atlas · by Pro Pluribus
US (Mira Murati)
Inkling open models plus Tinker, a service for fine-tuning your own model.
What it offers
Main offerings
- Inkling / Inkling-Small
- 15 Jul. Open multimodal models (text, image, audio, video).
- Inkling 2 Small
- 594B MoE (5 Nov), on Tinker; Apache weights promised.
- Tinker
- Fine-tuning API.
Recent news
- Thinking Machines launches Inkling 2 Small (594B MoE); Apache weights promisedIts second-generation model, on Tinker now; Cognition's SWE-2 Flash is built on it.Thinking Machines Lab ↗
- Thinking Machines releases Inkling, its first broad open-weight modelMurati's lab ships a general model more than a year after foundingBloomberg ↗
- Mira Murati steps back into the public eye, carefullyPublic profile rises amid reported researcher departuresTechCrunch ↗
- Thinking Machines introduces real-time multimodal interaction modelsContinuous audio, video and text streaming, a challenge to turn-based assistantsMarkTechPost ↗
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