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Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has launched Inkling 2 Small, a 594-billion-parameter model that accepts images but only outputs text. Third-party evaluator Artificial Analysis gave it a score of 31 on its Intelligence Index, putting it on par with Gemini 3.8 Flash, though the company says it will not release the model's weights publicly until next week.
A Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center survey of over 5,400 Americans found 53 percent of men claimed familiarity with two fictional AI figures, Susan Milner and Craig Dalton, compared with 40 percent of women. The same survey found men use AI more often and answer factual questions about it correctly slightly more often, but largely because women are more likely to say they don't know an answer rather than guess wrong.
A profile piece follows Thinking Machines Lab founder Mira Murati at a black-tie AI-industry gala in San Francisco, where she struggled to be heard over a chattering crowd despite her prominent status as a former OpenAI CTO who now runs a $12 billion startup. The writer uses the scene to explore why, unlike male tech leaders such as Elon Musk, Jensen Huang or Sam Altman, no single woman comes quickly to mind when people are asked who holds the most power in Silicon Valley.