[AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)

Latent Space · 3 months ago · 29 ● 3 sources

Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weights multimodal model with 41 billion active parameters that processes text, images, and audio. The model was pretrained on 45 trillion tokens and supports context windows up to 1 million tokens, with an Apache 2.0 license available immediately on Hugging Face and partner platforms. Inkling ranks as the strongest U.S.-based open-weights model released to date, though independent reviewers note it remains behind top Chinese open models and closed systems on some benchmarks.