
Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation
Accel is reportedly leading a $1 billion investment round for Thinking Machines, valuing the AI startup at $40 billion.
Thinking Machines
Inkling is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 41B active parameters out of 975B total. It is designed for general-purpose reasoning, coding, agentic and tool-use systems,...
Available via OpenRouter: create a free account at openrouter.ai, generate an API key, then call this model as thinkingmachines/inkling:free through the OpenRouter API (or any OpenRouter-compatible app/client).
Official: openrouter.ai/thinkingmachines/inkling:free

Accel is reportedly leading a $1 billion investment round for Thinking Machines, valuing the AI startup at $40 billion.

Accel is set to lead a massive $1B investment in AI startup Thinking Machines, boosting its valuation to $40B.
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