Thinking Machines Launches Inkling, Its First Open AI Model

Thinking Machines Launches Inkling, Its First Open AI Model

Thinking Machines Lab, the artificial intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released its first in-house AI model. Called Inkling, the model is an open-weight system that allows outside developers and companies to download and modify it directly—marking an important step in the startup’s effort to challenge the one-size-fits-all approach taken by major AI labs. Released on Wednesday morning, Inkling is designed to offer organizations a foundation they can adapt to their own needs rather than relying entirely on general-purpose models sold by the largest AI companies. Inkling is a 975-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model Inkling uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 975 billion total parameters. However, it activates only about 41 billion parameters for a given task, a design approach intended to make very large AI models faster and less expensive to run. According to Thinking Machines Lab’s release materials, the model was trained on 45 trillion tok…