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Industry·23h ago·all news from July 15, 2026

Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines

Thinking Machines has released Inkling, an open-source multimodal model with 975 billion parameters designed to process both video and audio data. By providing an open alternative to proprietary models from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, this release marks a strategic effort by Thinking Machines to compete in the high-end generative AI market. The model's scale and capabilities offer developers new tools for analyzing complex media, potentially shifting the landscape for accessibility in large-scale AI research and application development.

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