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Ep 820: The Most Important AI Model You’ll Probably Never Use That Just Dropped

aired Jul 16, 2026
Signal
87.3/ 100
Essential
confidence 0.99
Orig44.2
Actn100.0
Dens100.0
Dpth100.0
Clty72.5
Summary

SPEAKER_00: One of the more important AI models you've probably never heard of and likely won't use just got released. So if you haven't heard of Thinking Machines, they're led by Mira Marathi, the former CTO of OpenAI.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of right, know, model, including: This may get slept on, but Inkling is a huge release from Thinking Machines Lab.

Key takeaways
  1. 01SPEAKER_00: One of the more important AI models you've probably never heard of and likely won't use just got released
  2. 02So why is Inkling maybe the most important AI model you probably won't use?
  3. 03Because it's now the best open source model from an American company, and Thinking Machines is betting on the future of AI, fine-tuning as a service
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