Thinking Machines Lab

Overview

U.S. AI lab founded by ex-OpenAI CTO mira-murati, focused on customizable foundation models and the tinker fine-tuning platform. First public frontier-scale release: inkling (Jul 2026).

Recent Developments

• 2026-07-15: Released inkling — 975B total / 41B active multimodal MoE; Apache 2.0; Hugging Face + Tinker (2026-07-16-thinking-machines-inkling-official)
• Previewed inkling-small (276B/12B)
• Positioning: enterprise customization alternative to closed frontier APIs
• Funding: ~$2Bseed/$12B valuation in 2025 (Axios)

Related

• mira-murati
• inkling
• tinker
• open-weight-models
• mixture-of-experts
• frontier-ai-labs
• us-china-ai-competition

Sources

• 2026-07-16-thinking-machines-inkling-975b-open-weights

• 2026-07-16-thinking-machines-inkling-official

• 2026-07-16-thinking-machines-inkling-axios

• 2026-07-16-thinking-machines-inkling-huggingface