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Mira Murati's new venture, Thinking Machines, just dropped a significant marker in the open-weights AI race, releasing a nine hundred seventy five billion parameter language model called Inkling. That puts it among the largest publicly available models to date, and signals that Murati's post-OpenAI ambitions are very much alive and moving fast.
Speaking of OpenAI, the company is now moving beyond software with a physical keypad built in partnership with keyboard maker Work Louder, designed specifically for controlling AI agents. It's a small but telling shift — the idea that interacting with autonomous systems might eventually feel less like typing a prompt and more like reaching for a dedicated tool on your desk.
And on the frontier of AI research, a piece worth your attention from Wired argues that artificial intelligence still cannot match what a human infant does naturally in its first months of life. Researchers are increasingly looking at infant brain architecture for clues on how to build systems that genuinely learn from sparse, messy, real-world experience rather than mountains of curated data.
Three very different stories, one common thread — we are still very early. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
