The Register Follow Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't: releases a frontier AI model that's actually open Thinking Machines' first open weights model is a 975 billion parameter alternative to Chinese LLMs https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/16/former-openai-cto-does-what-altman-wont-releases-a-frontier-ai-model-thats-actually-open/5272177 theregister.com