Thinking Machines Details Staged Access for Inkling Weights
Company shares its evaluation of Inkling and plan for gradual access.
Thinking Machines Lab published a post on its assessment of the Inkling model. The company states that releasing weights indiscriminately is unsafe and that keeping capable models inside a few labs is also unsafe. It presents staged access as the visible part of a middle path, with testing and expanding safety work as defenses mature. The post is hosted on the company's site. Replies from AI researchers and open-source figures note the post's discussion of marginal risk and pretraining data filtering.
Releasing weights indiscriminately isn't safe. Neither is keeping capable models inside a few labs. We think there's a path between them. We haven't mapped all of it. Our new post covers the part we can see: how we assessed Inkling, and why access should widen in stages.
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Thinking Machines@thinkymachinesWe’re also expanding our safety team. If you’re interested in joining, please reach out!
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MM Mira Murati@miramuratiWe share our approach to open-weights releases, how we assessed Inkling, why safety depends on both the model and the ecosystem it enters, and how testing, staged access, and stronger defenses can create a path toward greater openness.
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SC Soumith Chintala@soumithchintalaOur plan keeps open weights and safety compatible with each other. We hope that this will help resolve debates and policies that pit open weights and safety as opposite and incompatible; ensuring a future full of open weights!
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AR Alex Robey@AlexRobey23Is there a safe path to releasing open-weight models? We think so. A few takes on AI safety for your Friday afternoon 🧵
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C❤️🔥 clare ❤️🔥@clarejtbirchAlex is good to work with, can kick a ball and captain a football team pretty bloody well, and has often-good thoughts on safety. If you want to join an ambitious and pragmatic AI safety team, you should get in touch :)
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JW Jiaxin Wen@jiaxinwen22great to see TML starts a safety team. This is rare in the open weight ecosystem. Nit: we should avoid arguments like "releasing our model is fine because it's no more dangerous than Grok or other open-weight models"
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