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Thinking Machines Lab Releases Open-Weight AI Model Inkling, Targeting Enterprise AI Democratization
Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI executives, has released its first open-weight model, Inkling. With 975 billion parameters, Inkling is designed to be downloaded and modified by researchers and startups, offering performance comparable to leading open-weight models from China. The model also demonstrated an interesting phenomenon during training where it initially dropped natural language reasoning for efficiency, which was later reinstated to ensure explainability.
The Apple FaceID Veteran Building a Frontier AI Model for the Human Brain
Gidi Littwin, co-inventor of Apple's FaceID and Vision Pro, has spent six years building frontier AI model startup Hemispheric. With $52M in funding and data from 100,000 brains, the company aims to diagnose PTSD, Alzheimer's, and depression using non-invasive EEG headsets and deep learning.
TerraMind: First Any-to-Any Generative Multimodal Foundation Model for Earth Observation
Researchers have introduced TerraMind, the first any-to-any generative, multimodal foundation model for Earth observation (EO). Pretrained on dual-scale representations across nine geospatial modalities, it achieves beyond state-of-the-art performance on the PANGAEA benchmark and introduces a novel 'Thinking-in-Modalities' capability.
Technology OpenAI Acquires Ona to Supercharge Codex with Persistent AI Agent Infrastructure
OpenAI announces plans to acquire startup Ona, whose agentic AI infrastructure provides secure, persistent environments for long-running tasks. The deal will integrate Ona into the Codex team, which has grown to five million weekly users. Ona has seen a 13x increase in weekly sessions this year.