Mira Murati’s AI Start-up Unveils Customisable, Open-Source Model Inkling
The 975 billion-parameter model can process audio, video and text, and the company says it is designed to be cheaper to run and easier to modify.
- On Wednesday, San Francisco-based Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, an open-weight model designed to balance "cost against performance" while processing text, images, and audio across different tasks.
- Thinking Machines founder Mira Murati aims to fill a U.S. market void where open-source development lags behind Chinese counterparts, building "interaction models" to capture nuances like silence and thinking for natural collaboration.
- Inkling utilizes a mixture-of-experts system with 975 billion total parameters, training on 45 trillion tokens of data and handling a context window of up to 1 million tokens while using about 41 billion parameters per task.
- Customers fine-tune Inkling through Tinker, the company's customization platform, with hedge fund Bridgewater Associates using it to improve financial reasoning; Thinking Machines currently offers the model for free, generating revenue through Tinker instead.
- Although the lab notes Inkling is "not the strongest model available today, closed or open," it emphasizes development speed, having built the system in nine months with plans for future models to train entirely on its own infrastructure.
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