Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, its first AI model — a 975B open-weights multimodal model

事件摘要

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released its first model Inkling on July 15, 2026. The 975B-parameter open-weights MoE model (41B active) supports text, images, audio, and video, with a 1M-token context window. Valued at $12B, the company positions Inkling as a customizable enterprise alternative to rented frontier APIs.

影响评估

• Paradigm Shift +1 · Long-term

  The release of Inkling by a startup founded by former OpenAI leadership validates an alternative model for frontier AI: open-weights, customizable, self-hosted — rather than API-rental-only.

  Affected Groups: AI industry, enterprise customers, AI researchers

• Economic Disruption +1 · Medium-term

  At $12B valuation with $6.3B compute deal locked in, Thinking Machines Lab adds a major competitor to the frontier AI market, challenging the notion that only a handful of labs can produce competitive models.

  Affected Groups: AI companies, investors, enterprises

共识度与来源

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  Inkling: Our open-weights model

  URL: https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/

  975B total parameters, 41B active, 1M context window, pretrained on 45T tokens of text, images, audio and video.

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  Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling

  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/thinking-machines-amps-up-its-bet-against-one-size-fits-all-ai-with-its-first-open-model-inkling/

  Thinking Machines Lab released its first in-house AI model Wednesday morning, called Inkling.

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  Murati's Thinking Machines Releases First AI Model for Broad Use

  URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-15/murati-s-thinking-machines-releases-first-ai-model-for-broad-use

  Thinking Machines Lab is releasing its first AI model, more than a year after former OpenAI executive Mira Murati founded the startup.

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  Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model

  URL: https://www.wired.com/story/thinking-machines-lab-releases-its-first-model-inkling/

  Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open source model, was trained to understand video and audio.

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  Mira Murati's Thinking Machines debuts its first AI model

  URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/07/15/mira-murati-thinking-machines-open-weight-model-inkling

  Mira Murati's Thinking Machines on Wednesday released Inkling, betting enterprises want AI they can customize.

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  Murati's Thinking Machines releases first AI model for broad use

  URL: https://fortune.com/2026/07/15/what-is-mira-murati-thinking-machines-first-ai-model-inkling/

  Valued at $12 billion, just launched Inkling — an open-weight model designed to rival OpenAI.

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