Mira Murati's Thinking Machine labs is out of stealth mode

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Summary

Mira Murati's Thinking Machine labs exited stealth mode, launching a general-purpose Tier 2 open-weight model that rivals Claude Opus 4.6 and GLM-5.2, intensifying competition in the AI frontier.

What's cool is they launched a general purpose Tier 2 model with open weights, just ahead of Claude Opus 4.6 and behind GLM-5.2. Both ZAI and DeepSeek should feel threatened. Anthropic's seat at the top, already rattled by GPT-5.6 Sol, is by no means guaranteed. More competition is also great for everyone else. At some point, compute costs and commoditized margins will cross the Pareto efficiency threshold. How long do you think before Thinking Machine labs claims the frontier spot?
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