model release
Thinking Machines introduces Inkling
Thinking Machines launched Inkling, a model designed for collaborative work across long, complex tasks.
Thinking Machines · Read source ↗Added to map Jul 15, 2026
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Thinking Machines Lab
✓ VerifiedThinking Machines Lab is emerging as a frontier lab with a real product angle, not just a talent story, through customizable AI systems and research tooling.
San Francisco, USFounded 2025API accessDaily review target
Editorial intelligence brief
Editorial focus
Released the Apache-2.0 open-weight multimodal Inkling model on July 15, 2026 and followed with the smaller Inkling-Small on July 30.
Focus: Customizable frontier AI systems, multimodal research, and model tooling
Latest funding
$2B
Seed · source-backed
Tracked funding
$2B
Sum of itemized funding events
Latest valuation
Not tracked
No source-backed record
Latest revenue
Not tracked
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External coverage of Thinking Machines Lab
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Last checked Oct 18, 2026.
WSJ · Reporting
Aug 26, 2026
More coverage (1)
Business Insider · Reporting
Jul 28, 2026
Source-backed financial history
Funding and financial history
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Records
1
Sum of recorded funding
$2B
Coverage
partial
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One funding announcement recorded. More dated rounds are needed to show funding over time.
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Seed · $2B
Running tracked total: $2B
#1
Seed · $2B
Running tracked total: $2B
Sources and details for every recorded funding announcement, newest first.
Seed · $2B
$2B seed round.
Product surface
Products and model families
Recent models
InklingInkling-Small
Products
TinkerInkling
Open weights
Yes
API access
Yes
Review target
Daily
Market position
Lifecycle and strategic signals
Research
Preview
Growth
Deployment
Preview: Limited access & evaluation
Focus
Customizable frontier AI systems, multimodal research, and model tooling
Signals
CustomizationFrontier researchMultimodal
Taxonomy
Media ModelsResearchDeveloper toolsSafety
Competitive context
OpenAIAnthropicSafe Superintelligence
Infrastructure & distribution
Where Thinking Machines Lab sits in the AI stack
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Model layer
2 tracked model families
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Access layer
Managed API + self-hostable weights
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Market layer
Frontier Labs
Public product surface
TinkerInkling
Stack signals
ResearchDeveloper toolsSafetyCustomizationFrontier researchMultimodal
This section reflects publicly visible product and access signals. Undisclosed GPU, cloud, training, and data-center contracts are not inferred.
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