Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling: A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort

Thinking Machines Lab just released Inkling, their first model trained from scratch, weights are open, fine-tunable on Tinker. The lab pitches it as a base for customization. What is Inkling? Inkling is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 975B total parameters and 41B active. It supports a context window of up to 1M tokens. Pretraining covered 45…

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Affordability the focus for parties on Day 4 of the Quebec election – Montreal

Affordability and the economy took the spotlight on Sunday as Quebec’s election campaign entered its fourth day, with party leaders unveiling their visions to ease financial pressures while grappling with the province’s budgetary constraints. The Quebec Liberal Party and Québec solidaire promised to make housing more affordable, while the Conservatives promised more tax cuts and…

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Court asked to order Élections Québec to mail out English voting information – Montreal

A lawyer for Élections Québec told a Montreal courtroom on Thursday that there might be time to send out one piece of English-language voter information by mail, as the elections agency and provincial government faced a court challenge over French-only mailouts. But Henrick Lavoie also told a Quebec Superior Court judge that it’s too late to send out both an…

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Meta govt leaves for OpenAI because the social media big faces rising scrutiny in India

Meta’s India and Southeast Asia vp, Sandhya Devanathan, is leaving the social media big to affix OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker advised TechCrunch. Devanathan will probably be based mostly in Singapore and report back to OpenAI’s Asia-Pacific managing director, Kiran Mani. She is going to oversee shopper progress, enterprise adoption and partnerships, regulatory engagement, and operations…

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Canadian spy agency says it hacked drug traffickers, extremists and a ransomware gang last year

Offering a rare glimpse at the priorities of a top spy organization, Canada’s Communications Security Establishment said it conducted a handful of state-authorized hacks last year in order to disrupt the operations of drug traffickers, violent extremists, and a ransomware gang. The disclosures in the Canadian intelligence agency’s annual report underscore some of the main…

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