Mira Murati Launches Inkling to Challenge Anthropic for Intellectual AI Dominance

By Rebecca Heilweil · Fast Company · 2026-07-19

According to Fast Company, the new startup Thinking Machines has released Inkling, an open-weights model designed to compete with Anthropic’s cerebral branding. The system utilizes a fine-tuning platform called Tinker to prioritize user-specific expertise over generalized respons

According to Fast Company, the new startup Thinking Machines has released Inkling, an open-weights model designed to compete with Anthropic’s cerebral branding. The system utilizes a fine-tuning platform called Tinker to prioritize user-specific expertise over generalized respons