Models
TechCrunch · Jul 15
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines ships its first open model, Inkling
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, an open-weight 975-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with about 41 billion active parameters, claiming roughly a third of the token usage of a rival model on coding. The startup monetizes through its Tinker customization platform rather than the model itself.
▸ The MSP Angle
Do new open models change what MSPs can offer?
Every capable open model widens the menu you can run for clients without locking them to one vendor's pricing or terms. The catch is that open weights are ingredients, not a service; the value is in hosting, governing, and supporting them safely. Model-agnostic delivery means a launch like this is an option to add, not a platform to rebuild.