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John Coogan stated that Thinking Machines Lab released an open-weight AI model designed to challenge the market lead of OpenAI and Anthropic. Competing open-weight models often copy data directly from those top providers.
Inkling launched without being the most powerful AI model available to the public.
“Inkling is not the strongest overall model available today, open or closed, which is a different frame of reference for many of these model launches.”
Anthropic currently terminates millions of accounts every week to stop users from distilling data.
“Anthropic is now shutting down distillation accounts on the order of millions accounts of per week…”
A Wall Street Journal report indicates Thinking Machines Lab launched an open-weight model to compete directly with OpenAI and Anthropic. John Coogan highlighted this release.
“Thinking machines lab first, uh, the first model is an open weights model designed to chip away at the lead of OpenAI and Anthropic, says the Wall Street Journal…”
Competitors like Kimi, GLM, Qwen, and Nematron train systems using data distilled from OpenAI and Anthropic. John Coogan stated the new open-weight model avoids this exact practice.
“This is the only open weight model that's trained without distilling from OpenAI or Anthropic. Kimi distills, GLM distills, Qwen distills, Nematron distills...”
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