OpenAI's Former CTO Just Launched a Massive AI Model to Challenge OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and China's AI Giants
For the past two years, the AI race has been dominated by familiar names: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, and a growing wave of Chinese AI companies. Now, another major contender has entered the arena. Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, has officially unveiled Inkling, its first general-purpose open-weight AI model.