Thinking Machines and Moonshot AI Release New Open-Weight AI Models

AI startup Thinking Machines has introduced Inkling, a new open-weight AI model featuring 975 billion parameters. Concurrently, Chinese firm Moonshot AI launched its Kimi K3 model, which boasts 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1 million-token context window, reportedly rivaling leading American systems at a lower cost. These releases highlight the rapid innovation and increasing competition within the open-weight AI model landscape.