LaunchAI ModelsJuly 30, 2026
Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling-Small

Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small, an open-weights Mixture-of-Experts model with 276B total and 12B active parameters. It achieves comparable performance to Inkling at a quarter of its size, with native multimodal reasoning, 1M context window, and variable thinking effort. Full weights are available for fine-tuning on Tinker.
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Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machineshuggingface.co
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Inkling: A New Open-Weight 975B MoE with a Few Surprisessebastianraschka.com
[AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)latent.space
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