Mira Murati Drops Her First AI Model After Leaving OpenAI—And It's Fully Open Source

Here is the latest from the digital-asset markets: In brief Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15—a 975-billion-parameter multimodal AI model trained from scratch, with full weights on Hugging Face under an Apache 2. 1% on MCP Atlas—nearly 30 points above Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Ultra—making it the best-performing Western open-weights model on agentic tool use.

Chinese models GLM 5. 6 still lead on several key benchmarks.

Thinking Machines raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation in July 2025, then reportedly sought a $50 billion raise in November before those talks fell apart by January 2026.

This shift continues to shape the digital-asset landscape, with analysts examining its near-term effects.