What is Thinking Machines Inkling? Analysis of 975B Open-Source Weights, Multimodal Architecture, and Technology
Thinking Machines Lab has officially launched its first multimodal model trained from scratch, Inkling, adopting a 975B parameter …
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Issue 2568November 2026Sunday
18stories5sections17sourcesAbout 9 min
Top story
Nous Research Releases Arete-27B to Strip Political Alignment
Nous Research released Arete-27B, an open-weights fine-tune of Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-27B that dramatically lowers propaganda-style responses while improving factuality.
Nous ResearchSource ↗
Also today
01Model Releases & Updates
Nous Research
Nous Research Releases Arete-27B to Strip Political Alignment
Nous Research released Arete-27B, an open-weights fine-tune of Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-27B that dramatically lowers propaganda-style responses while improving factuality.
Source ↗Vercel & Fireworks AI
Vercel AI Gateway Adds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Ultrafast via Fireworks
Vercel added DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Ultrafast to its AI Gateway, enabling serverless inference throughput exceeding 1,000 tokens per second.
Source ↗Buoyant
Buoyant Open-Sources Kinference for Kubernetes LLM Orchestration
Buoyant, the team behind Linkerd, launched Kinference as an open-source Kubernetes control plane designed specifically for vLLM clusters.
Source ↗02Product Releases & Updates
GitHub
GitHub Launches Copilot Projects for Multi-Repository Agent Workflows
GitHub introduced Projects within the Copilot app, allowing developers to steer autonomous AI agents across multi-repository initiatives.
Kuaishou Kling AI
Kling AI Introduces Kling 4.0 Keyframes for Granular Video Direction
Kling AI rolled out Keyframes in Kling 4.0, granting creators precise multi-frame storyboard control across generative video scenes.
OpenCode
OpenCode Launches Browse to Enable Agentic Control Over Live Browsers
OpenCode debuted OpenCode Browse, an agentic navigation tool allowing AI systems to operate inside a user’s authenticated, day-to-day web browser.
Source ↗Perplexity
Perplexity Teammates Sees 3.7x Day-Two Execution Growth
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas revealed that task executions on its new Teammates agent surged 3.7x on its second day of release.
03Industry News
TSMC
TSMC Rebuffs Reports of Entering 3D DRAM Memory Manufacturing
TSMC reiterated its strict focus on pure-play logic semiconductor foundry operations, dismissing rumors that it would manufacture 3D DRAM for Nvidia.
New York State Assembly
NY Lawmaker Calls on Congress to Outlaw Recursive Self-Improvement
New York State Assemblymember Alex Bores urged the U.S. Congress to pass emergency legislation banning recursive self-improvement in frontier AI models.
The New York Times & The Verge
U.S. Commerce Department Approved Advanced Nvidia H200 Exports to Shell Entity
An investigative report disclosed that U.S. regulators approved Nvidia H200 chip sales to New Matrix, an unverified shell company tied to a sanctioned Chinese entity.
Source ↗MiniMax & Scottish Mortgage
MiniMax Surpasses $800M ARR Driven by Enterprise Inference Demand
In an in-depth interview, MiniMax CEO Yan Junjie announced that the lab’s annual recurring revenue crossed $800 million, primarily from B2B infrastructure.
Source ↗SemiAnalysis
SemiAnalysis Evaluates Inner Mongolia’s 800MW Galaxy Data Center Cluster
SemiAnalysis published an on-site assessment of China’s Ulanqab Galaxy campus, a massive 800MW computing park delivered at unprecedented speed and low cost.
Source ↗04Research Papers & Advances
Google Research
Google Research Introduces SLEEP Framework for Lifelong Parametric Memory
Google Research proposed the SLEEP framework, enabling neural networks to consolidate transient context into permanent model weights without catastrophic forgetting.
Google Research & Nature
Nature: Google AI Detects Hypertension via Smartwatches Without Inflatable Cuffs
A peer-reviewed Nature paper from Google Research demonstrated an unsupervised AI architecture that accurately screens for hypertension using consumer smartwatch sensors.
Source ↗Carnegie Mellon University & U.S. DOE
CMU and National Labs Benchmark Shows Autonomous Science Agents Fail Expert Validation
Carnegie Mellon University and DOE National Labs introduced the ‘Into the Unknown’ benchmark, finding zero out of nine AI agents successfully solved open research problems.
Source ↗Google Research
Google Vantage Study Proves Disagreeable AI Teammates Improve Critical Thinking
Google Research revealed that pairing students with an argumentative AI collaborator powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro yielded superior business plans compared to compliant assistants.
05Other Highlights
Airbnb Engineering
Airbnb Moderation Case Study: Fine-Tuned 2B Model Matches Frontier LLMs at 1% Cost
Airbnb Engineering published production findings showing that domain-specialized Gemma4-E2B models matched frontier LLM accuracy at roughly 1% of the API cost.
Uber Engineering
Uber Engineering Unveils Secure AI Framework for Autonomous Agent Safety
Uber Engineering shared its Secure AI defense architecture, verifying user intent provenance rather than simple interface permissions to prevent agent prompt injection.