Thinking Machines 975B open-weights LLM
Shares rank 37 of 39 open-weight language models by recommenders
Large open-weights model from a new lab, with vision input; people credit the open release, though it trails some open models on benchmarks.
Large open-weights model from a new lab, with vision input; people credit the open release, though it trails some open models on benchmarks.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 86%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Open release from a new lab
“Thinking Machines just released an enormous open model though, and I'm hopeful to see more of this globally.”
Comment from 24 Jul 2026 in “Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI” “Give credit to Thinking Machines for their recent open release.”
Comment from 20 Jul 2026 in “American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing” Competitive with other open models
“being close is still impressive, especially for their first (released) model”
Comment from 15 Jul 2026 in “Murati's Thinking Machines Releases Open-Weights 975B Parameter LLM” “For the most part it's better than Nemotron, worse than GLM.”
Comment from 15 Jul 2026 in “Murati's Thinking Machines Releases Open-Weights 975B Parameter LLM”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Trails top open models on benchmarks
“For the most part it's better than Nemotron, worse than GLM.”
Comment from 15 Jul 2026 in “Murati's Thinking Machines Releases Open-Weights 975B Parameter LLM” Ranks 41 on Artificial Analysis Index
“debuts at 41 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index”
Comment from 15 Jul 2026 in “Murati's Thinking Machines Releases Open-Weights 975B Parameter LLM”
Other open-weight language models people recommend
The four most recommended other open-weight language models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.8 27B | 1,173 | 426 | 73% | 13 | 2 mo32 owners | Approved |
| Z.ai GLM | 1,043 | 384 | 73% | 13 | 2 mo52 owners | Approved |
| Kimi | 931 | 359 | 72% | 13 | 1 mo26 owners | Approved |
| Gemma 4 | 713 | 249 | 74% | 13 | 1 mo14 owners | Approved |
| Thinking Machines 975B open-weights LLMThis page | 6 | 1 | 86% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
All 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Thinking Machines just released an enormous open model though, and I'm hopeful to see more of this globally.”
“Give credit to Thinking Machines for their recent open release.”
“Thinking Machines might be it.”
“being close is still impressive, especially for their first (released) model”
“For the most part it's better than Nemotron, worse than GLM.”
“The multimodal input is also a big deal. Having vision input is really helpful for a lot of tasks.”
“debuts at 41 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.