Thinking Machines Lab, mentioned 14 times across podcast episodes and expert conversations analyzed by Sonic.
An AlphaSense study on real-world financial analysis tasks tested GPT-5.6 Sol, Opus 4.8, Opus 5, Sonnet 5, Haiku 4.5, QIMI K3, GLM 5.2, Inkling, and Gemma 4.
Signatories of the "Pacing the Frontier" letter include Dario Amadei of Anthropic, Shengjia Zhao of Meta AI, Jacob Pachocki of OpenAI, Jasjit Sekhon of Google DeepMind, and John Schulman of Thinking Machines.
A US-based company, likely NVIDIA, Thinking Machines, or Reflection, is predicted to release an open-weight model by late November that will rank in the top cluster of global models.