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Thinking Machines releases Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weight multimodal model for enterprise developers.
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Large language models & AI infrastructure
Thinking Machines released Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weight multimodal model
Thinking Machines, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released its first open-weight model, Inkling. The 975-billion-parameter multimodal model expands the small pool of frontier-class open models available outside Chinese providers, giving enterprises another route to self-hosted and customizable AI workloads.
Action
Evaluate Inkling as an option for workloads where model control, data residency or vendor concentration matter, but run security, licensing, inference-cost and benchmark validation before treating it as a production alternative to closed models.
OpenAI is using GPT-Red to continuously red-team its models
OpenAI introduced GPT-Red, an automated red-teaming system that uses self-play to find weaknesses in model safety, alignment and prompt-injection defenses. OpenAI says training GPT-5.6 against the system contributed to its most robust release yet, making automated adversarial testing a more central part of the model-development stack.
Action
Adopt continuous, automated red teaming as a release gate for high-risk AI applications rather than relying on one-off preproduction tests; include prompt injection, tool misuse and data-exfiltration cases in the test suite.
Anthropic and private-equity firms are creating an AI implementation business
Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman introduced Ode with Anthropic, an enterprise AI services firm focused on implementation rather than model access alone. The move signals that major model providers and financial sponsors see integration, workflow redesign and operating change as the next major AI value pool.
Action
Treat implementation capacity as a strategic constraint, not a procurement detail; assess whether internal teams and systems integrators can redesign priority workflows, controls and data foundations at the pace model capabilities are advancing.