Thinking Machines Open Sources Inkling, First Multimodal Language Model with Censorship Resistance

Summary

Thinking Machines, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has open-sourced Inkling, its first multimodal language model under an Apache 2.0 license, designed for low cost and 'resistance to censorship.' The 975-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, available on Hugging Face and Tinker API, demonstrates strong performance in software engineering and voice understanding, positioning itself as a robust contender in the competitive open-weight AI landscape.