Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model
Thinking Machines Lab has launched its first open-weight model, Inkling, which was trained to handle audio, video, and text. The company emphasizes decentralization and transparency, allowing users to modify the model for specific needs.
Why it matters
The release highlights the growing trend of open-source AI development as a counterweight to the centralized control of major tech labs.
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.
The reporting is factual and focuses on the technical and strategic aspects of the model release.
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