OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati failed to specify what data was used to train the company's video-generation model Sora during a Wall Street Journal interview, saying only that it used pub…
Thinking Machines Lab and four academic researchers released ReViSQL-K2.6, a text-to-SQL model that scored 91.37% with 16-sample self-consistency and 88.55% with greedy decoding on the expert-verified…
Barret Zoph, a co-founder of Thinking Machines who left the startup in January to rejoin OpenAI, has taken a position as vice president of research at Google, where he previously worked. A Google spok…
Mira Murati, founder of Thinking Machines Lab and former OpenAI executive, has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI for 2025. Her startup, which raised $2 billion in the largest …
Barret Zoph, former OpenAI VP of Research and co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, is joining Google DeepMind as Vice President of Research, focusing on reinforcement learning and post-training. Zoph …
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by Mira Murati, is offering up to $50,000 in Tinker credits for external safety research on its open-weight Inkling models, as announced on August 24. The program aims t…
Dartmouth will host the AI at 70 conference from Oct. 29-31, convening leaders from academia, industry, government, and the arts under the theme 'AI at 70: What Must Remain Human?' to discuss human ju…
A new open-source field guide catalogues 47 San Francisco tech slang terms, including 'Claude-pilled,' 'Corgi girls,' and 'Directionally very bad,' with origins traced and submissions open. The guide,…
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman remains the technical leader as product and research leadership churns, raising concerns among API developers about model behavior drift, deprecation timelines, and the…
Thinking Machines, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling on July 15, 2026, a 975-billion-parameter AI model with 66 layers and 256 experts per layer, of which only six activate pe…
Mind Lab, founded in October 2025 by Andrew Chen, released Macaron-V1 on July 21, achieving state-of-the-art results in six of 12 benchmarks, with the flagship Venti model post-trained on GLM-5.2 usin…
Brad Lightcap, special projects lead at OpenAI, announced on Tuesday that he is leaving the company to start a new venture, according to Reuters. Lightcap, who joined OpenAI in 2018 and oversaw initia…
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…
Noa Khamallah's Don't Quit Ventures has closed its second round of Fund I at $10 million, achieving a 2.5x return on invested capital, with three of its 17 investments now valued above $1 billion, acc…
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…
Bridgewater Associates, in partnership with Thinking Machines Lab, fine-tuned an AI model on its own investment managers' workflows, achieving 85% accuracy and reducing errors by almost 30% compared t…
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 …
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…
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…
OpenAI says Lilian Weng will return to lead a top-level team supporting research across the company, including work on recursive self-improvement, after the AI researcher and co-founder left Thinking …