The Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model The release of Inkling, an open weight artificial intelligence model from startup Thinking Machines Lab, has sent shockwaves through the tech community.
This new entrant into the high stakes AI race comes at a time when several big name companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are making headlines with their own AI advancements.
Thinking Machines' decision to release an open weight model follows a trend seen in China based startups, which have successfully produced models comparable in performance to those developed by established players like Google and Microsoft.