With a total of 975 billion parameters, Inkling is one of the largest models of its kind.
Mira Murati’s AI lab Thinking Machines has announced a new artificial intelligence model that could serve as an alternative to the popular open source product offered by the Chinese AI lab.
The model, named Inkling, is the institute’s first in-house AI model and is open-weight, unlike competitors such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. This means that outside developers and companies can download and modify it, unlike proprietary closed-source models.
With a total of 975 billion parameters, Inkling is one of the largest foundational models of its kind. It is also trained on 45 trillion tokens of text, images, audio, and video. While we acknowledge that Inkling may not be the most powerful overall model currently available, it is trained as follows: It must be a “broad and well-balanced basic model.”
In addition to Inkling, Thinking Machines also shared a preview of Inkling-Small. It is a lightweight model with 12 billion active parameters that provides strong performance at low cost and latency.
The startup wants to make customization available for more use cases. “Selecting the right base model for fine-tuning is a qualitative decision that combines measurable benchmarks with the unique feel you get from playing around with the model,” the official document says. statement.
Last week, the startup post The presentation summarizes why AI that is trained centrally and remains fixed performs worse than AI that organizations customize themselves. Because much expertise resides in the specific people who hold it. Thinking Machine aims to change this by providing customization capabilities. “Even with the best of intentions, a model shaped in one place will inevitably encode the values of its owners, rather than the individual users it serves,” the company said.
The launch of Inkling, which has about 200 employees, marks the company’s first major public product launch after spending about a year and a half developing it in stealth mode.
