Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling-Small, an open-weights AI model designed to deliver much of the performance of its larger Inkling model with substantially lower computing demands. The company says the model performs similarly to Inkling across reasoning, coding and multimodal tasks while using fewer active parameters for each generated token. Inkling-Small has 276 billion …
HubSpot has launched Agent Hub and Agent Builder in public beta for Professional and Enterprise customers. Dom Nicastro reports for CMSWire that the tools provide one workspace for building, monitoring and coordinating AI agents across marketing, sales and customer service. The launch addresses a growing problem for companies using several automated assistants. Separate agents can …
OpenAI has introduced Presence, a managed enterprise product designed to help companies deploy AI agents for customer service and internal operations. The system supports real time voice and chat interactions, allowing agents to answer questions, access selected company systems, complete approved tasks and hand difficult cases to employees. Presence is not a self service tool …
Powerful AI models that companies can download, run and adapt are becoming a serious competitive force against the closed systems offered by OpenAI and Anthropic. A new wave of open-weight models from China, including Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 and Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8, has sharpened a debate in Washington and Silicon Valley over whether open models …
Alibaba has released a preview of Qwen3.8 Max, the latest flagship model from its Qwen AI unit. The company says the model ranks among the strongest systems now available and compares with leading frontier models. Bloomberg News reports that Alibaba describes Qwen3.8 Max as second only to Anthropic’s Fable 5. The Hangzhou based company makes …
Moonshot AI, the Beijing based startup backed by Alibaba, has released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model the company calls in an official blog post the world’s first open 3T-class model. The system combines two new architectural components, Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals, with a 1 million token context window and native vision …
Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, has released its first major language model under an open source license. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the model, called Inkling, targets enterprises that want to run AI on their own servers while keeping costs low and avoiding ideological filtering. …
A new open-source framework called Agent-as-a-Router promises to make AI model selection smarter and cheaper. Ben Dickson reports for VentureBeat that the concrete implementation, called ACRouter, beats both static routing systems and the common strategy of defaulting to premium models like Claude Opus. Companies use model routing to send simple tasks to cheap, fast models …
Three major AI developers released new models within days of each other this week, and all of them lead with the same pitch: lower cost per task. Lorelei Smillie and Rachel Metz report for Bloomberg that OpenAI’s GPT-5.6, SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 and Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 all promise more output for fewer tokens, the units …
Slack has launched a major integration that lets its built-in AI assistant, Slackbot, tap directly into Salesforce’s CRM data, Tableau analytics, Data 360 customer profiles and dozens of third-party apps, all from a single chat message. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that the feature relies on dedicated Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers connecting Slackbot to …