Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't, releases a frontier AI model
With the Wednesday release of a new model codenamed "Inkling," an outfit called Thinking Machines Lab aims to change that.Founded in early 2025 by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, Thinking Machines' first model is a big one. Weighing in at 975 billion parameters, the model requires more than two terabytes of GPU memory — a quantity present in around eight of Nvidia's B300 accelerators, or sixteen H200s — to run at its native 16-bit precision. If that's asking too much of your hardware, Thinking Machines has also released a NVFP4 quantized version of the model capable of running on half the GPUs.
- ▪With the Wednesday release of a new model codenamed "Inkling," an outfit called Thinking Machines Lab aims to change that.Founded in early 2025 by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, Thinking Machines' first model is a big one.
- ▪Weighing in at 975 billion parameters, the model requires more than two terabytes of GPU memory — a quantity present in around eight of Nvidia's B300 accelerators, or sixteen H200s — to run at its native 16-bit precision.
- ▪If that's asking too much of your hardware, Thinking Machines has also released a NVFP4 quantized version of the model capable of running on half the GPUs.
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