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.

Today, Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a new multimodal mixture-of-experts model built for token-efficient reasoning, native multimodal understanding, and broad task…

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