{"slug": "ex-openai-cto-murati-s-thinking-machines-drops-inkling-a-975b-parameter-model-us", "title": "Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati's Thinking Machines drops Inkling, a 975B parameter model that leads US labs but trails China", "summary": "Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter multimodal open-weights model that leads U.S. open-weights models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index but trails top Chinese open models on some tasks. Priced at $1.87 per million input tokens, Inkling is positioned as a base for fine-tuning rather than the most powerful model available.", "body_md": "Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released Inkling, a multimodal open-weights model with 975 billion parameters. It leads U.S. open-weights models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, though top Chinese open models still beat it on some tasks. Pricing starts at $1.87 per million input tokens, and Thinking Machines is pitching Inkling as a base for fine-tuning rather than the most powerful model available.\n\nThe article [Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati's Thinking Machines drops Inkling, a 975B parameter model that leads US labs but trails China](https://the-decoder.com/ex-openai-cto-muratis-thinking-machines-drops-inkling-a-975b-parameter-model-that-leads-us-labs-but-trails-china/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ex-openai-cto-murati-s-thinking-machines-drops-inkling-a-975b-parameter-model-us", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/ex-openai-cto-muratis-thinking-machines-drops-inkling-a-975b-parameter-model-that-leads-us-labs-but-trails-china/", "published_at": "2026-07-16 09:55:28+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 09:58:46.357319+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-startups", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Thinking Machines Lab", "Mira Murati", "OpenAI", "Inkling", "Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ex-openai-cto-murati-s-thinking-machines-drops-inkling-a-975b-parameter-model-us", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ex-openai-cto-murati-s-thinking-machines-drops-inkling-a-975b-parameter-model-us.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ex-openai-cto-murati-s-thinking-machines-drops-inkling-a-975b-parameter-model-us.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ex-openai-cto-murati-s-thinking-machines-drops-inkling-a-975b-parameter-model-us.jsonld"}}