Post by Janahan Thavendran

Principal / Lead Product Manager | Platform Ecosystems & AI/ML Infrastructure | Agentic RAG • LLMs • GenAI | Payments & Fintech | B2B Enterprise SaaS | $1B+ GMV Scale | 0-1 to 50M in 6 Month.

Mira Murati's new startup, Thinking Machines Lab, just released Inkling - a 975B open‑weight model that's intentionally not chasing SOTA. Why? Because she's betting enterprises value control over raw IQ. Full ownership (Apache 2.0). Run it anywhere. Fine‑tune it privately. Its US origin gives it a clear adoption edge over foreign open‑weights in Western markets, less regulatory heat, and more CISO trust. Deliberately steerable. Deliberately a generalist. Built to be yours, not just smart. The frontier race is loud. Murati is playing the long game, and she's targeting procurement, not leaderboards. #Inkling #ThinkingMachines #EnterpriseAI #OpenWeights #DataSovereignty