Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling, an Apache-2.0 licensed open-weights MoE model with 975B total parameters and 41B active. Positioned as a strong base for fine-tuning via their Tinker platform rather than a frontier model, it supports multimodal inputs including text, images, audio, and video.
Background
The release marks a significant move by a prominent US-based AI lab to compete in the open-weight model space, challenging the dominance of closed models and international competitors.
- Source
- Simon Willison
- Published
- Jul 16, 2026 at 11:35 PM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10