Inkling: Our open-weights model
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- Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, an open-weights multimodal model (Apache-2.0, 975B total parameters, 41B active), trained on 45 trillion tokens including text, images, audio, and video.
- A smaller Inkling-Small model (276B, 12B active) is promised but not yet released.
- The model is not a frontier model, but a strong base for fine-tuning via their Tinker platform; documentation is minimal.
- Inkling is positioned as a competitive US open-weights alternative, joining NVIDIA Nemotron and Gemma 4.
- The model generated an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle and described its own image, noting the bird resembled a stork or seagull.