Mira Murati's Inkling: Open-Source AI Model Launched

Mira Murati's AI start-up, Thinking Machines Lab, has launched its first major AI model called Inkling. This open-source model is designed for customization and was trained on Nvidia GB300 NVL72 systems. Inkling features 975 billion total parameters, with 41 billion active, and supports a context window of up to one million tokens. It was trained across various tasks including agentic, reasoning, coding, and instruction-following, as well as vision and audio. The model accepts text, images, and audio inputs, producing text-only outputs. What's interesting is Inkling's focus on customizability rather than claiming to be the strongest model. It's available for download on Hugging Face and was trained using 45 trillion tokens of text, images, audio, and video. Thinking Machines Lab is also previewing Inkling-Small, a lighter model with 12 billion active parameters. Nvidia has made a significant investment in the start-up and partnered with them for multi-year AI model development. This new model could offer more tailored AI solutions for various applications.