Safe Superintelligence (SSI) vs Thinking Machines Lab vs Inception Labs vs Adept
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
| SSI Safe Superintelligence (SSI) Ilya Sutskever's lab pursuing safe superintelligence as a single goal,... Visit |
Thinking Machines Lab
Mira Murati's frontier AI lab, whose first product Tinker is an API fo...
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Inception Labs
The lab behind Mercury, the first commercially available diffusion LLM...
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Adept
Foundation models for enterprise agents
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 4.8 / 10 |
| Capability | — | — | — | |
| Value for money | — | — | — | |
| Ease of use | — | — | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | — | — | |
| API quality | — | — | — | |
| Pricing | Unknown | Paid | Paid | Custom |
| Free tier | Not sold — the lab has shipped no product, API or benchmark, by design | — | — | — |
| Paid from | — | Usage-based Tinker API (access via waitlist) | Usage-based API pricing (per token) | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — | — | — |
| Founded | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | 2022 |
| Maker | Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy | Mira Murati | Stefano Ermon, Aditya Grover, Volodymyr Kuleshov | — |
| Verdict | What this is for: A pure-research lab with a single goal—safe superintelligence—and a commitment to ship no commercial products until it gets there. Who this is for: Industry watchers and researchers tracking frontier s... |
What this is for: A frontier research lab whose first shipped product, Tinker, is an API for fine-tuning open-weight language models with fine-grained control over data and algorithms. Who this is for: ML engineers and... |
What this is for: Diffusion-based LLMs (the Mercury family) that generate text and code in parallel, reaching roughly 1000 tokens per second, far faster than typical autoregressive models. Who this is for: Developers ne... |
Adept was an influential AI research company building agents (ACT-1, Fuyu) that could take actions across software interfaces from natural-language instructions. Its work on action-oriented models and multimodal UI under... |
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