Thinking Machines Lab
AI research lab building customizable LLMs
San Francisco, CA, USA
Founded 2025
Thinking Machines Lab is an AI research and product company building customizable, multimodal AI systems designed for human-AI collaboration. The company develops open-weights foundation models, a fine-tuning API called Tinker, and interaction model research aimed at making AI more adaptable to individual needs.
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Last Updated: July 17, 2026
Current Valuation
$12B
as of July 15, 2025 (Source)
Funding Summary
$2B
Total reported funding
Announcement
July 15, 2026
Thinking Machines Blog: Inkling: Our open-weights model
Announcement
July 15, 2026
TechCrunch: Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
Announcement
July 15, 2026
The Register: Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't, releases a frontier AI model that's actually open
Announcement
April 22, 2026
TechCrunch: Exclusive: Google deepens Thinking Machines Lab ties with new multibillion-dollar deal
Key People
Core OSS Projects
Open-weights multimodal foundation model with 975B parameters (41B active), supporting text, image, and audio inputs
License: Apache-2.0
Training API and CLI for fine-tuning open-source language models with LoRA
License: Apache-2.0
Business Information
Category
LLMsIndustries
Software
Technologies
AI ModelsDeveloper ToolsMachine LearningDeep LearningAI Infrastructure
Sectors
DeveloperEnterprise
Licenses
Apache-2.0
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