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Thinking Machines Lab (Thinking Machines)

Artificial intelligence research and product company

thinkingmachines.ai

Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 10–225
Industry: IT Services & Consulting

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Latest news about Thinking Machines Lab (Thinking Machines)

In short: Thinking Machines, led by Mira Murati, raised $2 billion and released its first AI models, including the 975-billion-parameter Inkling.

Company announcements

July 31 Thinking Machines

Thinking Machines proposes a safe path to open-weight models

The approach involves robust safety testing, ecosystem readiness investments, and staged releases to mitigate misuse risks while promoting openness.

July 30 Thinking Machines

Thinking Machines introduces Inkling-Small

The model achieves comparable performance to Inkling at a quarter of the size, with 276B total and 12B active parameters

July 15 Thinking Machines

Thinking Machines releases open-weights model Inkling

Inkling is a 975B MoE transformer with 41B active parameters, supporting 1M token context and multimodal inputs.

May 19 Thinking Machines

Thinking Machines announces interactivity research grants

The grants offer $100,000 plus $25,000 in Tinker credits for proposals advancing interactivity research.

Media coverage

July 29 Techmeme

Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Lilian Weng is returning to OpenAI after announcing earlier this week she was leaving TML over workload-related health concerns

The Information: Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Lilian Weng is returning to OpenAI after announcing earlier this week she was leaving TML over workload-related health concerns...

July 27 The Verge

Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, has returned to OpenAI.

Weng had left OpenAI along with a handful of other employees to co-found the competing AI startup, which was helmed by Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former...

July 15 The Wall Street Journal

Mira Murati’s AI Startup Releases First Model in Bid to Loosen AI Giants’ Grip

Former OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati is betting on more customizable artificial-intelligence...

July 15 Bloomberg

Murati’s Thinking Machines Releases First AI Model for Broad Use

Thinking Machines Lab is releasing its first AI model, more than a year after former OpenAI...

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