Thinking Machines Opens Inkling - and Admits Its Limits
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released its first open-weight model, Inkling, and published benchmarks showing it losing to closed rivals on most of them.
Articles Tagged "Frontier Models"
Inkling
Thinking Machines Lab's first open-weight model - a 975B-parameter MoE with native text, image, and audio reasoning, released under Apache 2.0 and tuned for customization on the Tinker platform.
Inside the 12-Day White House Gate on GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol goes public today after the first voluntary government hold on a frontier AI model - here's what the 12 days actually looked like.
OpenAI Launches GPT-Live, Bets Voice Beats Text
OpenAI launched GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini on July 8, replacing Advanced Voice Mode and making an explicit bet that voice will become AI's primary interface.
Anthropic Signs $19B Lease With Former Bitcoin Miner
Anthropic signed a 20-year, $19 billion data center lease with TeraWulf at a former aluminum smelter in Kentucky, its largest dedicated infrastructure commitment yet.
UN AI Commission Launches Without Google or OpenAI
The UN and ITU launched a new AI for Good Global Commission with 40+ founding members, but Google, Meta, and OpenAI are not among them.
Claude Fable 5 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash: Power vs Speed
A benchmark-driven comparison of Claude Fable 5 and Gemini 3.5 Flash across coding, agents, pricing, and speed - two models built for opposite priorities.
US Ends Fable 5 Ban, Sets Jailbreak Severity Scale
The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 30, restoring global access today while industry partners draft a four-dimension jailbreak severity framework.
Grok 4.5 Enters Beta with Unverified Opus Claims
Elon Musk announced Grok 4.5 is in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla, claiming it rivals Claude Opus - but the only benchmarks cited are internal ones run at Musk's own companies.
DeepMind Maps Four Routes from AGI to Superintelligence
A 57-page DeepMind paper by co-founder Shane Legg identifies four pathways from AGI to superintelligence and six bottlenecks that could block each route.
Gemini 3.5 Pro
Google DeepMind's upcoming flagship model with a 2M-token context window and Deep Think reasoning, announced at Google I/O 2026 and expected in July.
Google Delays Gemini 3.5 Pro Past Its I/O Promise
Gemini 3.5 Pro missed its June launch window promised at Google I/O, slipping to July as four senior researchers departed for rivals.
