Thinking MachinesLaunchAI ModelsJuly 30, 2026

Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small open-weights MoE model

Inkling-Small is a 276B-total, 12B-active Mixture-of-Experts model, about a quarter the size of Inkling (975B/41B), trained on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems. It scores 31.6% on Humanity's Last Exam, beating Inkling's 29.7%, and 64.7 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 vs. 63.8. Full weights are available on Hugging Face, with fine-tuning on Tinker and support in transformers, SGLang, vLLM, and llama.cpp.

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