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Thinking Machines Lab News: Latest Releases & Events

Thinking Machines Lab's Inkling features in Interconnects' August 2026 roundup of open model releases, alongside Tencent, DeepSeek and Moonshot. It released Inkling in July 2026, an open-weight 975B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 41B active parameters. In March 2026, it announced a multiyear NVIDIA partnership to deploy at least one gigawatt of Vera Rubin systems, including a significant NVIDIA investment.

All 3 Thinking Machines Lab entries of the AI News timeline, newest first.

2026

August 2026

2026-08-02

  • Open Model Roundup: Laguna S2.1, Inkling, Kimi K3
    Interconnects' August 2026 roundup of open model releases highlights how model training capacity is proliferating rather than consolidating, with new releases from Thinking Machines (Inkling), Tencent (Hy3), Poolside (Laguna S2.1), DeepSeek (V4-Flash), and Moonshot (Kimi K3), alongside other entries from Meituan, AMD, and Swiss-AI. The recap underscores that more organizations are openly releasing strong models despite rising training costs, with notable trends including Tencent's shift to Apache 2.0 licensing and Kimi K3's restrictive revenue-share license raising potential U.S. policy implications. (interconnects.ai)
    Poolside Moonshot AI DeepSeek

July 2026

2026-07-15

  • Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling 975B MoE Model
    Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975B-parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 41B active parameters and a 1M-token context window. The open-weight model is a solid all-rounder intended for fine-tuning and specialization, featuring unconventional architecture choices including convolution layers, a learned relative-position bias instead of RoPE, and heavy use of sliding-window local attention across 55 of 66 decoder layers. (sebastianraschka.com)

March 2026

2026-03-10

  • NVIDIA and Thinking Machines Lab strategic partnership
    NVIDIA and Thinking Machines Lab announced a multiyear strategic partnership to deploy at least one gigawatt of next-generation NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems for frontier model training, which includes a significant investment from NVIDIA. (blogs.nvidia.com)
    Nvidia