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Thinking Machines Lab

AI Market Atlas · by Pro Pluribus

US (Mira Murati)

Up and coming Open-weight and challenger labsupdated 22 Sep 2026

Inkling open models plus Tinker, a service for fine-tuning your own model.

What it offers

Main offerings
Inkling / Inkling-Small
15 Jul. Open multimodal models (text, image, audio, video).
Tinker
Fine-tuning API.

Recent news

  • Thinking Machines releases Inkling, its first broad open-weight modelMurati's lab ships a general model more than a year after foundingBloomberg ↗
  • Mira Murati steps back into the public eye, carefullyPublic profile rises amid reported researcher departuresTechCrunch ↗
  • Thinking Machines introduces real-time multimodal interaction modelsContinuous audio, video and text streaming, a challenge to turn-based assistantsMarkTechPost ↗

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