I've got an Inkling

Ben's Bites · 2 hours ago

Thinking Machines launched Inkling, its first open-weights model with a 1M-token context window supporting text, images and audio, available on the Tinker fine-tuning platform. The model is positioned for custom fine-tuning as startups increasingly shift workloads from frontier models to self-hosted versions, with alternatives like GLM-5.2 gaining adoption despite lacking vision capabilities. The release reflects a growing market trend toward open-source and customized AI models rather than reliance on leading proprietary systems.