The Loss Leader · Business Model
Thinking Machines Gave Away Inkling. Tinker Is How It Gets Paid.
On July 15, Mira Murati's lab open-sourced a 975-billion-parameter model, Inkling — then admitted, in the same post, that it "is not the strongest overall model available today." As an announcement, that's strange. As strategy, it's the tell: the model was never the product. The tooling underneath it is.
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