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The AI Race Isn't About Bigger Models

25 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In a breaking‑news segment, the speakers report that Mira Murati, former CTO of OpenAI, has launched the first model from her new venture, Thinking Machine Labs, called Inkling. Inkling is an open‑weight foundation model that anyone can download, fine‑tune, and run on‑premises on their own hardware. Murati’s public stance is deliberately contrarian: she does not claim Inkling is the most powerful model, but argues that the real competitive edge for AI companies will come from the ability to customize and own models rather than chase leaderboard‑dominating frontier models. The discussion emphasizes that this focus on adaptability and on‑prem ownership aligns with current market demand for control over AI systems, positioning Inkling as a potentially successful offering.

Breaking news. Mira Murati, the former OpenAI CTO, just shipped her first model for her startup called Thinking Machine Labs. It's called Inkling. It's an Openweight Foundation AI model that can be downloaded by anyone, fine-tuned, and run on-prem on your own hardware. Her bet is contrarian here. She's not claiming it's the best model on earth. Her own blog say so. She's betting that AI companies can adapt her models for themselves, that customization over leaderboard dominance is what's going to win her the day.
You've hit there, Peter, on the really big thing. She's pushing on the customization lever because it's not going to be the future is the raw power, it's going to be the adaptability that's going to win. She's built exactly the thing hitting the market that exactly what everybody needs right now. I think it's going to do really well.
And people owning their own models, working on-prem, and not giving their controls to the large frontier models.