Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model

Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company started by exiles from OpenAI, has released its first model, called Inkling. The startup’s new model is open-weight, which means that researchers and startups will be able to download and modify it.

In a a blog post, the company says Inkling was trained from scratch to make sense of audio and video input as well as text. It says that while Inkling isn’t the best model on popular benchmarks, it performs well at many tasks, and is capable of advanced reasoning and coding. Like many open-weight models, Inkling is relatively large—975 billion parameters—and needs to run on a cluster of specialized chips.

In a sign of how AI models are increasingly being used to build AI, the lab also used Inkling to fine-tune and improve itself.

The release could help Thinking Machines establish itself as a legitimate player in the...

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