howdy, it’s Barsee again.

happy thursday, AI family, and welcome back to AI Valley.

here are the biggest things worth knowing today:

• Mira Murati's startup just unveiled its first flagship AI model

• OpenAI just launched its first AI hardware device

• Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…

JIRA

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THROUGH THE VALLEY

1/ Mira Murati's startup just unveiled its first flagship AI model: Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, an open-weights multimodal model with a 1 million-token context window built for reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows. The company says Inkling rivals leading open models while using significantly fewer tokens, giving developers a powerful foundation they can fully customize and self-host.

2/ OpenAI just launched its first AI hardware device: The company unveiled Codex Micro, a $230 programmable keypad built with Work Louder that lets developers control coding agents through dedicated keys, a joystick, and customizable commands. While designed for a niche audience, the launch offers an early glimpse into OpenAI's broader hardware ambitions ahead of its upcoming consumer AI devices.

TRENDING TOOLS

• Pocket > Take notes in the real world

• Reframe > Expand any image or zoom into the details in any aspect ratio

• Oak > Gives companies an identity control plane to manage humans, apps, and AI agents

• Inkling > Thinking Machines launches its open-weight AI model

WHAT I'M CONSUMING

• The twilight of the chatbots

• How OpenAI's Sol finally learned design taste

THE VALLEY GEMS

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