Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling: A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort

MarkTechPost · 16 hours ago

Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weights multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 41 billion active parameters and a 1-million-token context window. The model was trained on 45 trillion tokens of text, images, audio, and video, and features a controllable thinking-effort mechanism that allows users to trade inference cost for performance, achieving Terminal Bench 2.1 parity with Nemotron 3 Ultra using one-third the tokens. Inkling is available on Hugging Face and hosted platforms, enabling deployment of cost-tuned agentic systems and multimodal applications across voice, vision, and text inputs.