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IT Home reported on November 6 that Business Insider said yesterday, local time, that Thinking Machines Lab, the artificial intelligence company founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, is raising $5 billion at a pre-money valuation of $40 billion (IT Home note: approximately 267.301 billion yuan at current exchange rates). The $5 billion is approximately 33.413 billion yuan at current exchange rates.
Thinking Machines Lab completed a $2 billion seed funding round at a valuation of more than $10 billion earlier last year, but a subsequent attempt to raise funds at a $50 billion valuation fell apart in negotiations.
Thinking Machines Lab also released its second-generation model, Inkling 2 Small, on the same day. It uses an MoE architecture and has a parameter scale of 594B-A17B. The model underwent four stages of pretraining followed by 9 days of joint reinforcement training.
The AI lab said Inkling 2 Small scored far higher than its previous model on analytical intelligence, reflecting improvements in intelligent coding, vision, knowledge work, and reasoning. The weights for Inkling 2 Small will be released under the Apache 2.0 license next week.