Local AI Weekly #1 reports that Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16, a 2.8-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with a 1M token context window under a Modified MIT license, making it the la…
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15, a 975-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 41B active parameters, open-weight under Apache 2.0, from Mira Murati's $12B startup. The model…
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small, an open weights Mixture-of-Experts model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, about a quarter the size of its 975B-parameter Inkling model. The mode…
Thinking Machines released Inkling-Small, a lightweight AI model that is a quarter the size of its predecessor Inkling but delivers equivalent performance, cutting GPU memory use by 75% to enable loca…
Thinking Machines' Inkling, a 975B total / 41B active MoE model with Apache 2.0 license and 1M context, is being trialed via a bash wrapper alias 'claude-inkling' that bridges Anthropic's CLI to the O…
In 2026, open-weight models such as Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4, Inkling, and Nemotron 3 advertise million-token context windows, made feasible on consumer hardware by rebuilding attention mechanisms. A 48GB…
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small, an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active, designed to deliver performance comparable to its l…
Researchers distilled DeepSeek V4 Flash into the open-source GPT-OSS-120B model for finance reasoning, achieving 83.61% on FinanceReasoning at an 8,000 token budget, outperforming Kimi K3 (81.93%) and…
Thinking Machines, the AI lab founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling Small, an open-weights reasoning model that scores 40 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, one point …
MCP handler 2.0.0 implements the 2026-07-28 MCP spec with a stateless Streamable HTTP transport, enabling first-class support for serverless platforms like AWS Lambda and Cloudflare Workers. The relea…
Every notable open-weight frontier model released in the past year uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, according to an analysis by Vetted Consumer. The shift means total parameters range fro…
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small on July 30, an open-weight AI model with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active per token, roughly one-quarter the size of its pr…
Thinking Machines released Inkling and Inkling-Small, two open-weight language models, and outlined a safety framework for releasing open weights, emphasizing robust safety testing and ecosystem readi…
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small on July 30th, an open-weights multimodal model with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active per token, designed to deliver much of…
CTGT Inc. found that distilling DeepSeek V4 Flash into GPT-OSS-120B did not transfer censorship characteristics, with the teacher scoring +45.45 points on politically sensitive pairs (7 standard devia…
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, is returning to OpenAI to work on recursive self-improvement research, a day after announcing her departure from the startup due to health reasons, ac…
Lilian Weng, former OpenAI VP of AI Safety and cofounder of Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab, is leaving the startup on July 29, citing seven months of health problems worsened by startup stress. S…
Lilian Weng, cofounder of Thinking Machines Lab, announced her departure from the AI startup on Tuesday, citing stress and illness that left her unable to sustain the pace required by a startup. Weng,…
Lilian Weng, cofounder of Thinking Machines Lab and former OpenAI VP of AI safety, announced her departure on X, citing seven months of health problems aggravated by startup pace. She becomes the four…
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, posted a cryptic message on July 27 calling her decision 'hard and sad,' without specifying its nature, following the July 15 release of the company's…