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Thinking Machines Lab launched Inkling, its first fully released open-weights foundation model family, featuring 975B parameters with 41B active parameters in a Mixture-of-Experts architecture. Inkling supports multimodality with text, image, and audio inputs and text output, is Apache 2.0 licensed, and offers up to 1M context window. The model is available on platforms like Tinker, Hugging Face, and partners, with broad ecosystem support from vLLM, SGLang, Modal, Baseten, and Databricks. Key figures such as Mira Murati, Soumith Chintala, John Schulman, and Lilian Weng highlighted its open weights, customization, and practical use focus. Independent commentators noted it as the strongest U.S.-based open-weight release to date, though still behind top Chinese open-weight and best closed models on some benchmarks.
Oracle jumps +36% in a day after winning $300B OpenAI contract
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Oracle's OCI division reported a stunning +359% revenue bookings growth to $455B with cloud revenue guidance of $144B by 2030, driven significantly by a large deal with OpenAI amid tensions with Microsoft. On AI infrastructure, Moonshot AI released Kimi’s checkpoint-engine, enabling rapid weight updates on 1T-parameter models across thousands of GPUs, integrating with vLLM. RLFactory introduced a plug-and-play reinforcement learning framework for tool-using agents, showing smaller models outperforming larger ones. TRL v0.23 added context parallelism for long-context training. Thinking Machines Lab published research on deterministic inference pipelines, making vLLM deterministic for Qwen models. Meta launched BackendBench, a PyTorch benchmarking tool.
Bartz v. Anthropic PBC — "Training use is Fair Use"
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Anthropic won a significant fair use ruling allowing the training of Claude on copyrighted books, setting a precedent for AI training legality despite concerns over pirated data. Replit achieved a major milestone with $100M ARR, showing rapid growth. Delphi raised $16M Series A to scale digital minds, while Thinking Machines Lab focuses on reinforcement learning for business applications. Disney and Universal sued Midjourney over unauthorized use of copyrighted images. Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics On-Device, a compact foundation model for robotics.