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Former OpenAI CTO's startup releases 975-billion-parameter AI model

The Decoder Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati's Thinking Machines drops Inkling, a 975B parameter model that leads US labs but trails China

Thinking Machines, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling, a massive multimodal open-weights model.

Why it matters

The release introduces a powerful new open-weights model to the market, intensifying competition with established AI labs.

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