Overview
Former OpenAI CTO; founder of thinking-machines-lab. Central figure in the 2026 U.S. open-weights frontier narrative after releasing inkling.
Recent Developments
- 2026-07-15: thinking-machines-lab ships inkling (975B/41B MoE open weights, Apache 2.0) (2026-07-16-thinking-machines-inkling-official)
- 2025: Thinking Machines raised record ~12B valuation (pre-product) per Axios (2026-07-16-thinking-machines-inkling-axios)
- OpenAI tenure includes period of GPT-2 openness debates (2019) often cited as context for her open-weight stance