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Putting Task Expertise into RL Achieves State-of-the-Art Performance on Text-to-SQL - Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab describes a reinforcement learning approach that achieves state-of-the-art performance on the BIRD text-to-SQL benchmark.
Time
Mira Murati: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2026
TIME profiles Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and CEO Mira Murati, highlighting the lab's $2B seed round and its mission to offer customizable AI models.
TechCrunch
Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google
Barret Zoph, a co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab who later rejoined OpenAI, has taken a VP of research role at Google, continuing the AI talent shuffle.
The Next Web
Barret Zoph is going back to Google, six years and two startups later
Barret Zoph returns to Google DeepMind as VP of research, with the article exploring Thinking Machines' founding team departures and the AI talent war.
The Next Web
She left the AI race over her health. Two days later, OpenAI had her back.
Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng stepped down citing health issues and quickly returned to OpenAI to work on recursive self-improvement.
Thinking Machines Lab
Announcing Safety Research Grants - Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab launched Tinker grants, offering up to $50,000 in credits to support safety research on open-weight models.
ZDNET
Is open source the answer to rogue AI agents? Nvidia's new alliance says yes
AI agents are behind a steady string of security incidents this year. Nvidia thinks a new partnership built on open-source software is the answer.
The Register
Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't, releases a frontier AI model that's actually open
The Register reports on Thinking Machines Lab's release of Inkling, its new open weight model.
TechCrunch
Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
TechCrunch reports on Thinking Machines' release of Inkling, its open weight model.
Thinking Machines Blog
Inkling: Our open-weights model
Thinking Machines Lab announces the release of its open weight model, Inkling.
TechCrunch
Exclusive: Google deepens Thinking Machines Lab ties with new multibillion-dollar deal
Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, has signed a new multibillion-dollar agreement to expand its use of Google Cloud’s AI infrastructure, including systems powered by Nvidia’s latest GPUs, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
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