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Thinking Machines Lab

San Francisco, California, United States · thinkingmachines.ai

Thinking Machines Lab develops and releases AI models, including Inkling and Inkling-Small, and publishes research on training, reasoning, optimization, and deterministic inference.

AI Core · watchlist · score 64

Positioning

Frontier lab renting from Google Cloud (GB300) with Nvidia as investor and supplier; no owned capacity.

Latest signals

  • Google hired Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph as vice president of research.The AI Insider
  • Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small, a 276-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal model.NVIDIA blogs
  • Thinking Machines Lab launched Inkling, an open-weight AI model with 975 billion total parameters.The AI Insider
  • Thinking Machines Lab positioned Inkling as a customizable base model integrated with its Tinker platform.The AI Insider
  • Thinking Machines Lab built Inkling in approximately nine months and now employs about 200 people.The AI Insider

68 signals name Thinking Machines Lab. Members see all of them, filtered by topic, source and date.

Facts, with sources

  • Google hired Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph as vice president of research.Senior hire · The AI Insider
  • Thinking Machines Lab released the Inkling model.Product launch · Hugging Face
  • Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small, available for one-click deployment on Inference Endpoints at up to 160 TPS.Product launch · Hugging Face
  • Inkling was deployed on Together AI's production inference platform.Deployment · Together AI

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Scores, AI Core (of 10)

Deployment4
Production6
Commercials2
Progress10
Technology6
Positioning6
Firepower8
Leverage8

Traction: deployment, production, commercials, progress. Capability: technology, positioning, firepower, leverage.

Questions this page answers

What does Thinking Machines Lab do?

Thinking Machines Lab develops and releases AI models, including Inkling and Inkling-Small, and publishes research on training, reasoning, optimization, and deterministic inference. Frontier lab renting from Google Cloud (GB300) with Nvidia as investor and supplier; no owned capacity.

Where does Thinking Machines Lab rank in ai core?

Thinking Machines Lab is on the AI Core watchlist list of Frontier Tech Intelligence with a score of 64 out of 100, below the Top 100.

Where is Thinking Machines Lab based and when was it founded?

Thinking Machines Lab is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

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