The latest AI news and updates of Thinking Machines Lab — AI research and product company building fine-tuning tools and multimodal interaction models. Covering Thinking Machines Lab's latest launches, product updates, and company news from the past 90 days.
Thinking Machines LabAug 22Thinking Machines Lab is making its Inkling and Inkling-Small models available for free on OpenRouter for the next few weeks. This access is restricted to agentic harnesses, with usage data disassociated from accounts to improve the models' agentic performance.
Thinking Machines Lab published a safety framework for open-weight models, detailing a staged release approach to balance accessibility with misuse risks. The company used its Inkling model as a case study, conducting internal evaluations and external red-teaming to assess safety. Additionally, the lab is expanding its safety team to support ongoing research into defensive AI capabilities.
Thinking Machines LabJul 30Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small, an open-weights multimodal model featuring 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active parameters. It matches the performance of the larger Inkling model on reasoning and agentic tasks while using one-quarter of the active parameters. The model supports text, image, and audio inputs, and is available for fine-tuning on Tinker and via public weights.
Thinking Machines LabJul 15Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a multimodal open-weights model supporting text, image, and audio inputs. The Mixture-of-Experts model features 975B total parameters and introduces controllable thinking effort, which adjusts reasoning depth to optimize cost and latency. Inkling is available for fine-tuning on the Tinker platform, with full weights published on Hugging Face.
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