Mira Murati’s Inkling AI Model Review: Best Open-Weights Model in the West

Mira Murati spent two years building something new after leaving OpenAI, finally revealing it to the public last week. Inkling, the first model from Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab, is also the best open-weights model trained from scratch by a Western lab. Western labs have been losing the open-source race—Mistral's April release landed against a leaderboard dominated by Alibaba’s Qwen, Z.ai’s GLM, and Moonshot AI’s Kimi. Nvidia’s Nemotron, the lone Western model on the leaderboard, is far from b...