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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Ships Inkling-Small: 276B Open-Weight Model Within One Point of Its Flagship
Thinking Machines Lab, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling-Small on July 30 — two weeks after the 975B flagship Inkling. The small model has 276B total and 12B active parameters, runs under an Apache 2.0 licence, and scores 40 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, within one point of the flagship's 41. It is designed for enterprise fine-tuning via the lab's Tinker platform.