# Thinking Machines Lab [thinkingmachines.ai](https://thinkingmachines.ai/) Connectionism: Research Blog by Thinking Machines Lab. Researched 2026-11-11 ## Products ### Inkling-Small Inkling-Small Matches its larger sibling on many benchmarks at a quarter of the size, with lower cost and latency. 276B total 12B active. [Inkling - Thinking Machines Lab](https://thinkingmachines.ai/inkling) · [Thinking Machines Lab](https://thinkingmachines.ai/) · [Product page](https://thinkingmachines.ai/inkling) ### Tinker Tinker is Thinking Machines Lab’s API for fine-tuning open-weight models. Frontier-grade infrastructure for training your own models. [Tinker - Thinking Machines Lab](https://thinkingmachines.ai/tinker) · [Thinking Machines Lab](https://thinkingmachines.ai/) · [Product page](https://thinkingmachines.ai/tinker) ## Customer feedback [Thinking Machines Lab](https://reddit.com/r/ChatGPTcomplaints/comments/1x4w794/thinking_machines_lab) Excerpt: Thinking my past corpus could become an adaptor 2026-10-13T13:09:43.000Z · [Reddit](https://reddit.com/r/ChatGPTcomplaints/comments/1x4w794/thinking_machines_lab) [Thinking machines lab questions](https://reddit.com/r/DarkInterview/comments/1xq1nu0/thinking_machines_lab_questions) 2026-11-07T08:41:37.000Z · [Reddit](https://reddit.com/r/DarkInterview/comments/1xq1nu0/thinking_machines_lab_questions) [Thinking Machines Lab Co-Founder, Andrew Tulloch,Departs for Meta. He previously declined a $1.3b offer](https://reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1o46zre/thinking_machines_lab_cofounder_andrew) 2025-10-11T21:13:56.000Z · [Reddit](https://reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1o46zre/thinking_machines_lab_cofounder_andrew) [Thinking Machines Lab Implodes: What Mira Murati's $12B Startup Drama Means](https://reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1qj4hk2/thinking_machines_lab_implodes_what_mira_muratis) 2026-01-21T17:37:34.000Z · [Reddit](https://reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1qj4hk2/thinking_machines_lab_implodes_what_mira_muratis) [Mira Murati's new AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab ...](https://reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ism7j0/mira_muratis_new_ai_startup_thinking_machines_lab) Excerpt: Who will truly benefit from Thinking Machines Lab's work? If it's just another high-profile AI research startup with open-source projects that ... [Reddit](https://reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ism7j0/mira_muratis_new_ai_startup_thinking_machines_lab) [Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling, Its First ...](https://linkedin.com/pulse/thinking-machines-lab-releases-inkling-its-first-model-karan-checker-jp6ic) Excerpt: Alongside Inkling, Thinking Machines previewed Inkling-Small, a 276B-parameter MoE model with 12B active parameters (versus 41B for the full ... 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Modified dates describe updates, not original publication. ### [Introducing Inkling 2 Small](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-2-small) - Modified 2026-11-05 — [Publisher sitemap · last modified](https://thinkingmachines.ai/sitemap.xml) - Published 2026-11-05 — [Publisher visible publication date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news) - Published 2026-11-05 — [Publisher visible publication date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-2-small) - Modified 2026-11-05 — [Publisher visible modification date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-2-small) ### [One Year of Tinker: Turning Your Expertise into Custom Models](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/one-year-of-tinker) - Modified 2026-10-15 — [Publisher sitemap · last modified](https://thinkingmachines.ai/sitemap.xml) - Published 2026-10-15 — [Publisher visible publication date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news) - Published 2026-10-15 — [Publisher visible publication date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/one-year-of-tinker) - Modified 2026-10-15 — [Publisher visible modification date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/one-year-of-tinker) ### [Putting Task Expertise into RL Achieves State-of-the-Art Performance on Text-to-SQL](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/putting-task-expertise-into-rl) - 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Published 2026-07-30 — [Publisher visible publication date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news) ### [Open weights, ready to tinker](https://thinkingmachines.ai/inkling) - Published 2026-07-07 — [Publisher visible publication date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/inkling) - Modified 2026-07-07 — [Publisher visible modification date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/inkling) - Modified 2026-07-07 — [Publisher sitemap · last modified](https://thinkingmachines.ai/sitemap.xml) - First archived 2026-07-15 — [Internet Archive · earliest successful HTML capture](https://web.archive.org/web/20260715181438/https://thinkingmachines.ai/inkling/) ### [Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling) - Modified 2026-07-15 — [Publisher sitemap · last modified](https://thinkingmachines.ai/sitemap.xml) - Published 2026-07-15 — [Publisher visible publication date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news) ### [The Future Worth Building Is Human](https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/the-future-worth-building-is-human) - Modified 2026-07-10 — [Publisher sitemap · last modified](https://thinkingmachines.ai/sitemap.xml) - Published 2026-07-10 — [Publisher visible publication date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog) ### [Learning to Replicate Expert Judgment in Financial Tasks](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/learning-to-replicate-expert-judgment-in-financial-tasks) - Modified 2026-06-30 — [Publisher sitemap · last modified](https://thinkingmachines.ai/sitemap.xml) - Published 2026-06-30 — [Publisher visible publication date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news) ### [Announcing Interactivity Research Grants](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/interactivity-research-grants) - Modified 2026-05-19 — [Publisher sitemap · last modified](https://thinkingmachines.ai/sitemap.xml) - Published 2026-05-19 — [Publisher visible publication date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news) ### [Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration](https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models) - Modified 2026-05-11 — [Publisher sitemap · last modified](https://thinkingmachines.ai/sitemap.xml) - Published 2026-05-11 — [Publisher visible publication date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog) ### [Training LLMs to Predict World Events (Guest Post with Mantic)](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/training-llms-to-predict-world-events) - Modified 2026-03-19 — [Publisher sitemap · last modified](https://thinkingmachines.ai/sitemap.xml) - Published 2026-03-19 — [Publisher visible publication date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news) ### [Thinking Machines Lab and NVIDIA Announce Long-Term Gigawatt-Scale Strategic Partnership](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/nvidia-partnership) - Modified 2026-03-10 — [Publisher sitemap · last modified](https://thinkingmachines.ai/sitemap.xml) - Published 2026-03-10 — [Publisher visible publication date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news) ### [Tinker: General Availability and Vision Input](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/tinker-general-availability) - Modified 2025-12-12 — [Publisher sitemap · last modified](https://thinkingmachines.ai/sitemap.xml) - Published 2025-12-12 — [Publisher visible publication date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news) ### [apply](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/interactivity-research-grants/apply) - Modified 2026-06-01 — [Publisher sitemap · last modified](https://thinkingmachines.ai/sitemap.xml) ### [Tinker: Call for Community Projects](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/call-for-community-projects) - Modified 2025-11-07 — [Publisher sitemap · last modified](https://thinkingmachines.ai/sitemap.xml) - Published 2025-11-07 — [Publisher visible publication date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news) ### [Tinker: Announcing Research and Teaching Grants](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/tinker-research-and-teaching-grants) - Modified 2025-10-29 — [Publisher sitemap · last modified](https://thinkingmachines.ai/sitemap.xml) - Published 2025-10-29 — [Publisher visible publication date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news) ### [On-Policy Distillation](https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/on-policy-distillation) - Modified 2025-10-27 — [Publisher sitemap · last modified](https://thinkingmachines.ai/sitemap.xml) - Published 2025-10-27 — [Publisher visible publication date](https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog) ### [Announcing Tinker](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/announcing-tinker) - 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[Thinking Machines Lab](https://thinkingmachines.ai/) — thinkingmachines.ai · Retrieved 2026-11-11 2. [Inkling - Thinking Machines Lab](https://thinkingmachines.ai/inkling) — thinkingmachines.ai · Retrieved 2026-11-11 3. [Tinker - Thinking Machines Lab](https://thinkingmachines.ai/tinker) — thinkingmachines.ai · Retrieved 2026-11-11 --- JTMWYD — Just tell me what you do.