Mira Murati's Inkling Hits the Open Source Scene

It's official: Mira Murati is back in the game with a powerhouse team largely poached from OpenAI. Inkling isn't just another model; it's a direct shot at the current open-source leaderboard. While it doesn't quite touch the absolute ceiling of closed-source giants in coding or complex reasoning, its multimodal integration is impressive.

What stands out to me is the native audio and vision processing. Hitting 77.2% on MMAU puts it in the same league as Gemini 3.1 Pro, which is a huge win for the open-source community. The MoE architecture allows it to maintain a massive knowledge base while keeping active parameters low enough to be practical.

Seeing this level of performance coming from a new lab so quickly suggests that the "OpenAI playbook" is being successfully replicated and open-sourced. Inkling provides a formidable base for developers who need high-end multimodal capabilities without being locked into a proprietary ecosystem.