Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Releases Open-Weights Inkling Model
What happened
The release of Inkling by Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab introduces a significant shift in artificial intelligence, signaling the end of the "static model" era. Inkling is presented as a foundational AI designed for "Tinkering," implying a dynamic and adaptable architecture capable of self-modification.
Why it matters
AI scientists and machine learning engineers should immediately explore Inkling's self-modifying, open-weights architecture, as it represents a critical shift towards dynamic, adaptable AI systems that can autonomously fine-tune themselves, impacting future model development and deployment strategies.
Topics
- Inkling
- Self-Modifying AI
- Open Weights
- Dynamic Models
Articles in this trend
- Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines drops Inkling, an open-weights model anyone can access — AI – SiliconANGLE
- Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model — WIRED - Ai
- Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati's Thinking Machines drops Inkling, a 975B parameter model that leads US labs but trails China — The Decoder
- Thinking Machines Lab offers enterprises a US alternative in open-weight AI — Computerworld
- Inkling: Our open-weights model — Simon Willison's Weblog
- [AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B) — Latent.Space - Www.latent.space
- The AI That Can Re-Write Its Own Brain: Why Inkling is the New Frontier for Open Weights — HackerNoon
- Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling — AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
- Thinking Machines open sources first multimodal language model, Inkling, focused on low cost and 'resistance to censorship' — VentureBeat
- The TechBeat: The AI That Can Re-Write Its Own Brain: Why Inkling is the New Frontier for Open Weights (7/20/2026) — HackerNoon
- Complete Guide to Thinking Machines Inkling — Analytics Vidhya
- Murati's 975B Model Fine-Tuned Itself on Launch Day — and Cracked the Top US Open-Weight Spot — Towards AI - Medium