突发，翁荔离职Thinking Machines
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TL;DR - Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng is leaving after 20 months, citing recurring illness and an unsustainable workload. Her exit matters because it follows several other founding-team departures and comes shortly after the company released its first open-source model, Inkling.
- Weng said she wants a more predictable, clearly bounded AI role rather than another co-founder position.
- She previously spent nearly seven years at OpenAI, leading applied AI and safety work after starting in robotics.
- Inkling is described as a 975B-parameter MoE model with 41B active parameters, native multimodality, a 1M-token context window, and Apache 2.0 licensing.
- The article notes earlier leadership turmoil at Thinking Machines but reports no claim from Weng that strategy, equity, or internal conflict caused her departure.
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突发，翁荔离职Thinking Machines
TL;DR - Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng is leaving after 20 months, citing recurring illness and an unsustainable workload. Her exit matters because it follows several other founding-team departures and comes shortly after the company released its first open-source model, Inkling.
- Weng said she wants a more predictable, clearly bounded AI role rather than another co-founder position.
- She previously spent nearly seven years at OpenAI, leading applied AI and safety work after starting in robotics.
- Inkling is described as a 975B-parameter MoE model with 41B active parameters, native multimodality, a 1M-token context window, and Apache 2.0 licensing.
- The article notes earlier leadership turmoil at Thinking Machines but reports no claim from Weng that strategy, equity, or internal conflict caused her departure.