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Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati's Thinking Machines drops Inkling, a 975B parameter model that leads US labs but trails China

Thinking Machines releases Inkling, a 975B parameter multimodal open-weights model. It sets a new benchmark for US open-weights models, though some Chinese models still outperform it on specific tasks. Inkling is positioned for fine-tuning, with pricing starting at $1.87 per million input tokens.

The Decoder·Jul 16, 2026

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