LaunchAI ModelsJuly 30, 2026
Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small open-weights model

Inkling-Small is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 276B total parameters (12B active) that matches Inkling at a quarter of its size. It beats the larger model on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (64.7 vs 63.8) and Humanity's Last Exam (31.6% vs 29.7%), with up to 1M-token context. Full weights are on HuggingFace and fine-tunable on Tinker.
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Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machineshuggingface.co
Introducing Inkling-Smallthinkingmachines.ai
RT @NVIDIAAI: Congrats @thinkymachines on the new open model 🙌 Inkling was trained on NVIDIA GB300...x.com
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
Thinking Machines debuts Inkling Small open source AI model nearing performance of predecessor at about 1/4 sizeventurebeat.com
Inkling from Thinking Machines is now available on AI Gatewayvercel.com
Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Modelwired.com
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