Posted Jul 15, 2026 at 6:34 PM UTCHExternal LinkMira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab has debuted its first AI model.Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO (and, briefly, CEO during Sam Altman’s ouster in 2023), wrote on X that the open-weight model, called “Inkling,” was trained from scratch. Judging by the official blog post, though, it seemed like the company was purposefully setting expectations for Inkling low: “It is not the most performant model available today, closed or open … We trained Inkling for solid capabilities across the board rather than state-of-the-art performance in a single area, to serve as a foundation for the models we will train in the future.”Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Hayden Field
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab has debuted its first AI model.
Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO (and, briefly, CEO during Sam Altman’s ouster in 2023), wrote on X that the open-weight model, called “Inkling,” was trained from scratch. Judging by the official blog post, though, it seemed like the company was purposefully setting expectations for Inkling low: “It is not the most performant model available today, closed or open … We trained Inkling for solid capabilities across the board rather than state-of-the-art performance in a single area, to serve as a foundation for the models we will train in the future.” [Link: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model | https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/ | Thinking Machines Lab]
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