Inkling
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Inkling is an open-weights multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, reported as having 975B total parameters with 41B active per token and a 1M-token context window. In recent coverage, the lab also released a smaller Inkling-Small variant (276B total, 12B active) and made both available for fine-tuning via its Tinker platform under Apache 2.0. Alongside broader open-model releases, Inkling has been positioned in coverage as a base for customization, with compute requirements discussed for deployment.
Updated 15 September 2026
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Latest developments
Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling-Small: A 276B Total, 12B Active Open Weights Multimodal MoE Model
MarkTechPost · 1 month ago ·
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Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier
Interconnects · 1 month ago ·
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The Sequence AI of the Week #899: Inside Inkling: A Trillion-Parameter Model That Only Wakes Up 41 Billion at a Time
Substack · 1 month ago ·
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The Sequence Radar #897: Last Week in AI: China, Compression and the Open-Model Race
Substack · 1 month ago ·
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Inkling: Our open-weights model
Simon Willison's Weblog · 2 months ago ·
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Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 464
Deep Learning Weekly · 2 months ago ·
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September 2026
- Thinking Machines in talks for $1B at $40B valuation as Mira Murati’s AI lab races ahead
- Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation
August 2026
- Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling-Small: A 276B Total, 12B Active Open Weights Multimodal MoE Model
- Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier
July 2026
Moonshot released Kimi K3, a large open-weight AI model Open source release
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model achieving frontier-class performance Open source release
Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weights multimodal model under Apache 2.0 license Open source release
Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weights multimodal mixture-of-experts model Open source release
Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weight AI model Open source release
Thinking Machines releases Inkling, an open-source multimodal language model with 975 billion parameters Open source release
- The Sequence AI of the Week #899: Inside Inkling: A Trillion-Parameter Model That Only Wakes Up 41 Billion at a Time
- The Sequence Radar #897: Last Week in AI: China, Compression and the Open-Model Race
- Inkling: Our open-weights model
- Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 464
- I've got an Inkling
- Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
- Mira Murati's AI Startup Releases First Model in Bid to Loosen AI Giants' Grip
- Thinking Machines released Inkling, an open-weight customizable multimodal model
- [AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)
- Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling: A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort
- Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model
- Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
- Together AI brings Thinking Machines Lab’s new model Inkling on day 0
- Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines
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- Thinking Machines Lab develops this model · 8 sources
- Thinking Machines develops this model · 7 sources
- Integrated with Tinker · 1 source
- Integrated with Hugging Face · 1 source
- Thinking Machine develops this model · 1 source
- Inkling-Small derived from this model · 1 source
- Together AI deploys this model · 1 source