Inkling model from Thinking Machines Lab now on Databricks

A r/ClaudeAI poster who uses Claude exclusively for game work — cloning an N64 game, adding levels to an existing game, building new games — fears the model will become less useful for those tasks. The post names no specific model version, benchmark, or change.

Open models have passed an inflection point where they can be deployed and adapted for meaningful agentic tasks, per Nathan Lambert. He says OpenAI and Anthropic reached that milestone 3-6 months earlier, but the open ecosystem faces a different set of challenges.

Hassabis says that when he co-founded DeepMind in 2010, no one thought AI would be commercially viable. The WSJ. Style interview frames the founding as the most consequential decision of his life.