Thinking Machines has released Inkling-Small, an open-weights Mixture-of-Experts transformer model with 276 billion parameters that achieves performance comparable to its larger predecessor Inkling while being one-quarter the size.
AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released Inkling, a 975-billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with open weights designed for enterprise customization and on-premises deployment. The company explicitly positions the model as focused on customizability rather than benchmark dominance.
Sakana AI unveiled Fugu and Fugu Ultra on June 22, 2026, a multi-agent orchestration system that coordinates multiple AI models to match performance of leading models like Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos without training its own frontier model. The approach aims to reduce single-vendor dependency in enterprise AI deployments.
