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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