Thinking Machines Pivots to Open Models
sebkrier · x · 2026-07-17
This post discusses a classic trope: many new labs "only publish blogs," but things are changing as Thinking Machines has started developing open-source, open-weight models.
The press is particularly excited not just about benchmark scores, but the strategic direction itself: a US lab choosing to align its future vision with open models, rather than taking the more closed and "typical" route. The author mentions having written related analysis and plans to compare this approach with the upcoming Kimi K3.
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