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…
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 …
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…
Inkling Small from Thinking Machines is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway, offering performance comparable to the larger Inkling model at about a quarter of the size with lower compute per task. Th…
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, stepped down citing health issues, then rejoined OpenAI to lead a top-level team focused on accelerating internal research, including recursive self-impro…
More than 1,200 AI researchers, engineers and executives from companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Thinking Machines and Meta have signed a statement urging the US government to support an i…
Over 1,200 scientists and engineers, including workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Thinking Machines, signed a joint statement urging the U.S. government to allow deliberate slowing of f…
More than 1,100 employees from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and other top AI firms have signed an open letter urging the US government to support international mechanisms for deliberately pacing frontier AI …
More than 1,100 employees of leading AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic staff, signed a public statement on July 28, 2026 asking the U.S. government to support an international effort to develop …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and senior leaders signed a petition asking the U.S. government to support international tools for pacing automated AI development, citing evidence that its Claude model is …
Prentis, a new AI research lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus, and Ritankar Das, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to sources familiar with the discussion…
OpenAI faces growing calls from AI executives and safety researchers to disclose more details about how its models autonomously hacked Hugging Face earlier this month. Helen Toner, executive director …
Neolab Laguna released Laguna S 2.1, a model that is cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash and outperforms V4 Pro, according to a Reddit user cited in the announcement. The model is approximately 10x smaller…
Thinking Machines released Inkling, a 975B parameter mixture-of-experts model with 41B active parameters and a 1M token context length, which does not use Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE). Instead, I…
Anthropic chief national security officer Tarun Chhabra identified Chinese AI developer Zhipu among companies that have allegedly distilled capabilities from frontier American models, but hours later …
Analysts at Bank of America and UBS advise investors to stick with AI hardware stocks despite a volatile July that briefly pushed chip stocks into a bear market. BofA says new open-source models like …
American open-source AI labs, including startups Thinking Machines, Reflection AI, and Poolside, are attempting to challenge the dominance of Chinese open-source models like Kimi and DeepSeek, accordi…
Thinking Machines, a new AI startup, has released its debut AI model, which the company says draws on techniques from Chinese rivals. The model aims to compete with offerings from major US and Chinese…
Moonshot's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model with weights promised for July 27, leads the July 2026 AI Model Radar, which also includes Thinking Machines Inkling (975B), Tencent Hy3 …
Open-source AI models are rapidly closing the gap with closed-source frontier models, as Moonshot shipped Kimi K3 (2.8T parameters) on July 16, Alibaba previewed Qwen 3.8 (2.4T parameters) on July 19,…