Thinking Machines offers enterprises a US alternative in open-weight AI

Thinking Machines Lab, the San Francisco startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati , has released Inkling, its first general-purpose AI model. The launch adds another US-developed entrant to an open-weight market where Chinese developers produce several leading coding and reasoning models. Inkling uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 975 billion total parameters, of which 41 billion are active during processing.